Thursday, February 26, 2026

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Jerry's House of Everything: THE GREEN HORNET: THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN (MAY 24, 1938)

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Thursday Treats: 2/25/2026


Welcome back to “Thursday Treats.”  Been a hard week. Mixed bag doc appointment Monday, a couple of falls, and then late-night Tuesday evening, my oldest called to tell me that they are getting divorced. She suddenly took the kids, my grandkids, from their place about six weeks ago, has not communicated one word since, and has now, apparently, filed for divorce. He has no idea why at all. I am too sick and too broke to be of any help at all. So, this week has sucked.

 

Publishing wise, things seem to be a bit light. A couple of things did cross my desk though….

 

SMFS member S. B. Watson announced that her new novella, Laughing Matter: An Impossible Crime, was now out. Published by Black Beacon Books, this is the first of three planned novellas they are releasing this year. It is only available in eBook format at Amazon.  These new novella’s join Cameron Trost’s Let Darkness Take Hold: A Tale of Suburban Suspense released in 2012.Weekly.

 


SMFS member Barb Goffman shared the news of the latest issue of Black Cat Weekly. Available at the website, Black Cat Weekly #234 is now out and features numerous short stories, novellas, and more. A single digital issue is $2.99, but the longer subscriptions are the real deal and the way to go.


 

We have also a well respected and solidly good market. SMFS Member Michael Bracken announced in a recent SleuthSayers blog post that Black Cat Mystery Magazine has closed down. It ran for 16 issues. I think I have several of them here in digital format in my TBR pile. Several are also reviewed here on the blog. I am sad to see it go. You can still pick up issues, for now at least at the publisher, Wildside Press, and at Amazon.

 

Then there are the publishing delays. Last week was supposed to see the release of Diversion: A Probation Case Files Mystery by Cindy Goyette. Thanks to the digital ARC from the author, I had the publication day review. It wasn’t until later in the day I learned that the publisher, Level Best Books, had delayed the release to some unspecified time in the future and had to correct the review and my social media posts. 


Delay with them has happened again this week. This time it is fellow SMFS member, and my VP when I was SMFS President, Kathleen Marple Kalb. She reports that her latest book, The Stuff of Malice, did not release on time as scheduled on Tuesday. This third book in the series that began with The Stuff of Murder: An Old Stuff Mystery is now “coming soon” with no new release date announced.

 

Level Best Books does have a spiffy new revamped website now so one hopes that is a sign they are getting back on track to fulfill their publicly  stated mission of being “… one of the premiere publishers of mysteries and thrillers.”


Out now and reviewed by yours truly earlier this week is The Crossroads: A Joe Pickett Novel by C.J. Box. I am a big fan of this series featuring Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett. They made a tv series of it awhile back, but as almost always happens, the books are way better. If you missed my review of this new read, go here.

 


And, finally, The Politician: A DS George Cross Mystery by Tim Sullivan comes out next Tuesday. This is the fourth book in this excellent police procedural series being released here in the United States by Atlantic Crime, an imprint of Grove Atlantic. Like the Eve Dallas series, I came to this one by way of reviews by Lesa Holstine. I have been getting digital ARCs through NetGalley and have massively enjoyed the reads. Make sure you start at the beginning and read Lesa’s review of The Dentist. Come here Tuesday when my publication day review of The Politician: A DS George Cross Mystery will appear here.

 

 

Until next time….

 

Kevin R. Tipple ©2026

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Lesa's Book Critiques: Kevin’s Corner Annex – A Study in Secrets by Jeffrey Siger

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Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity: 83 Writing Contests in March 2026 - No entry fees!

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The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: SMFS Spotlight: Cheryl Head

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George Kelly: WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #263: THE FINAL SCORE By Don Winslow

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Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: THE THREE DRUGS

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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Lesa's Book Critiques: Booking for Trouble by Jenn McKinlay

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Mystery Fanfare: MYSTERY READERS JOURNAL NEWS FOR 2026: Subscribe now!

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SleuthSayers: Sixteen Lives

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Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity: 34 Marvelous Writing Conferences and Workshops in March

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Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Vows and Villainy by Elizabeth Penney

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Jerry's House of Everything: INCOMING

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In Reference to Murder: Media Murder for Monday

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Publication Day Review: The Crossroads: A Joe Pickett Novel by C.J. Box

 

Marybeth Pickett always knew that being the wife of a Wyoming Game Warden meant the worse could happen at any time. She knows from the start of The Crossroads: A Joe Pickett Novel that it has almost happened. At least her husband is still alive, if only by a thread. 

 

That November morning a Wyoming Game and Fisheries Department pickup was found smack in the middle of Antler Creek Road by a hunter. It was riddled with bullet holes. Her husband, Joe Pickett, was also hit and suffered severe trauma.

 

She soon makes her way to the isolated scene where the ambulance crew is prepping him for an emergency helicopter ride to Billings, Montana. Shot, including once in the head, he needs a trauma unit and far more medical care that the small community hospital in Saddlestring, Wyoming, can provide. First, he has to survive the half hour plus chopper flight to get to the trauma unit.

 

With a newly elected sheriff in town, and other local law enforcement challenges, their three daughters decide that they will figure out who ambushed their dad. Sitting in the hospital with their mom isn’t going to help. Sheridan, April, and Lucy are known in the community which means people will talk to them. They know how to investigate having grown up in a household where both parents have investigated a lot of cases over the years.  They know they can do this. To figure out who did it, they have to figure out why he was on the road and where he was headed. They are going to figure it out.

 

And Nate Romanowski might get involved as well.

 

The Crossroads: A Joe Pickett Novel is the latest book in the long running series. It is also a mighty good read. In addition to the reminder of how Marybeth and Joe met and details of their marriage, readers are given a long glimpse into the lives of their adult daughters. Ladies that have seen a thing, or three, as they grew up and have the scars and internal resources to deal with any problem.

 

The Crossroads: A Joe Pickett Novel is an intense and very good read. This one will keep you up late-night reading, if you are not carful. Strongly recommended.

 


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My digital ARC came by way of the publisher, G.P. Putnam's Sons, through NetGalley, with no expectation of a review. 

 

 

Kevin R. Tipple ©2026

Monday, February 23, 2026

Lesa's Book Critiques: Kevin’s Corner Annex – Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb

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Bitter Tea and Mystery: Murder of a Lady: Anthony Wynne

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Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: The End of the Sahara by Said Khatibi

 

The End of the Sahara is set in the late summer and early autumn of 1988 in and around the central Algerian city of Bou Saada. It tells of multiple crimes, both significant and petty, but the focal point is the murder of Zakia Zaghouani, the young and attractive singer at the Hotel Sahara. Zaza had many admirers and others were jealous of her successes. In addition, her family was appalled at her refusal to lead a conventional Muslim life.

Written by Said Khatibi, who grew up in Bou Saada, the narrative incorporates a backdrop of local corruption, administrative incompetence, and wrenching deprivation. The memory of the Algerian War of Independence, which Algeria waged against France from 1954 to 1962, is still strong but the governance structure that replaced French rule has not been successful. With little water, food, or electricity, the country’s long-suffering residents finally rose in a mass protest a few days after the end of this book with devastating results.

The author’s note at the beginning of the book states that “It is a tribute to the more than five hundred people who died fighting for freedom on October 5, 1988, and to women who fought on this day and every day, resisting a violent patriarchal system that aims to control them.”

Originally published in Arabic as Nihayat Al-Sahra by Hachette Antoine, Beirut, in 2022, the book won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Young Author category in 2023. The original text has been translated beautifully by Alexander Elinson, Associate Professor of Arabic at Hunter College in New York, for publication by Bitter Lemon Press of London. Bitter Lemon Press has an impressive catalog of crime fiction in translation from all parts of the world. Their finalist designation for the 2025 Crime Writers’ Association Publisher’s Dagger recognizes Bitter Lemon Press’s efforts to deliver quality books in English from uncommon sources.

Interestingly, we never hear from the victim directly. We only know what others thought of her and their experiences with her. About six narrators explain individually what they knew of the singer and the events leading up to her death and perhaps twice that many characters support the story; keeping track of who is who can be challenging. A helpful roster of characters is found at the end of the book.

With only minimal knowledge of Algeria’s history, I realized I was missing the subtext of the story as I read. An article by M. Lynx Qualey in ArabLit was most helpful in that regard: Looking for Ghosts: On Said Khatibi’s ‘End of the Sahara’. I recommend a review of this essay before beginning the book.

Kirkus starred review. 

 

·         Publisher: ‎Bitter Lemon Press

·         Publication date: ‎March 24, 2026

·         Language: ‎English

·         Print length: ‎336 pages

·         ISBN-10: ‎1916725228

·         ISBN-13: ‎978-1916725225

 

 

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Aubrey Nye Hamilton ©2026

Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal It projects by day and reads mysteries at night.

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Lesa's Book Critiques: Book Tasting

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Kathleen Marple Kalb: The Waiting Game

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KRL Update

Up on KRL this week a review and giveaway of "The Devil in the Details" by Vicki Delany https://kingsriverlife.com/02/21/the-devil-in-the-details-by-vicki-delany/

And a review and ebook giveaway of "Devil's Gambit" by Jeri Westerson https://kingsriverlife.com/02/21/devils-gambit-by-jeri-westerson/

 

And a review and giveaway of a mystery with a supernatural twist, "Death and Other Occupational Hazards" by Veronika Dapunt, along with an interesting interview with Veronika https://kingsriverlife.com/02/21/death-and-other-occupational-hazards-by-veronika-dapunt/

 

Looking for something fun to watch? Up on KRL this week a review of the 5th season of "My Life is Murder" and the first season of "Art Detectives," both on Acorn TV https://kingsriverlife.com/02/21/my-life-is-murder-season-5-art-detectives/

 

Up during the week we posted another special midweek guest post, this one by mystery author Elaine Faber about writing and her new book "Black Cat and the Immigrant Child" https://kingsriverlife.com/02/18/the-framework-of-a-good-book/

 

Up on KRL News and Reviews this week we have a review and ebook giveaway of "Dog's Kitchen" by Neil Plakcy https://www.krlnews.com/2026/02/dogs-kitchen-by-neil-plakcy.html

 

And for those who enjoy fantasy with their mystery, we have a review and ebook giveaway of "Of Blood and Fire" by Keri Arthur https://www.krlnews.com/2026/02/of-blood-and-fire-drakkon-kin-trilogy.html

 
Happy reading,
Lorie 

Guest Post: Excerpt from Ruth Snyder: The Real-Life Murderess Inspiring The Modern Femme Fatale by Justin L. Murphy

  

Please welcome author Justin L. Murphy to the blog today as he shares an excerpt from his new book, Ruth Snyder: The Real-Life Murderess Inspiring The Modern Femme Fatale.

 

Introduction

 

One Christmas, I received a collection entitled The Four Novels of James M. Cain. It was an out-of-print item released in 1988, purchased on Amazon, and consisted of the author’s classic works. Among them were The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity, and Serenade. I’ve also watched the film Body Heat, starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner, a few times.

 

A few nights after I watched the film again, I also saw the 1946 adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice. When I earlier read the novel, I felt Frank Chambers was an asshole for wanting Cora Papadakis to take the rap for the murder of her husband, Nick. I noticed how much the story resembled Body Heat. Both depicted a married woman and her male lover plotting to kill her much older husband.

 

I dug around online to find any connections, and not only were The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity written by Cain, but they were also based on the same real-life murder. In 1927, Ruth Snyder and her lover, Henry Judd Gray, murdered her much older husband, Albert. These two were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. For almost a century, this event and its participants affected the culture and helped shape true crime and tabloid fodder in the modern era. It also helped form the hardboiled crime genre and defined its visual counterpart, film noir.

 

My aim with this book is to examine the case, its cultural influence, and the real-life family members it affected, despite their choices to remain silent. I hope those who read this come away with a better understanding of why Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray committed this horrible act and what drove them to murder her husband, Albert. Above all, learn and examine the traces they leave behind, even a century later.

 

Regards,

Justin L. Murphy

A Writer Who Remains Curious

 

 

                                                       Chapter 1

 

The Art Editor and Telephone Operator First Meet

 

“Please excuse me.”

 

May Ruth Brown in the first conversation between her and her future husband, Albert Schneider.

 

Albert Edward Schneider was born in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, on October 11, 1882, and was described as very intelligent with a passion for sports and the outdoors. One of six siblings, he maintained a close relationship with his mother, Mary Elizabeth Mealio Schneider, to the point that he painted and papered her walls. The man often tanned as an adult from hours of boating and fishing, which resulted from his love of the sea and the wind blowing in his curly hair. He was also interested in bowling and served as the art editor of Motor Boating Magazine, owned by William Randolph Hearst.

 

He fell in love with and became engaged to Jessie Guishard, even considering her the finest woman he ever met, but she contracted pneumonia before they could marry. She passed away on November 21, 1912, and Albert never got over her death. While working one day, he was irritated with a telephone operator who wanted to call a manufacturer to ease the situation. He spewed a great deal of harsh language at her expense, but soon regretted his behavior and apologized in person within a few hours. It was love at first sight between him and May Ruth Brown, the blonde-haired and blue-eyed nineteen-year-old everyone called "Brownie.” She was born on 125th Street in Manhattan on March 27, 1895. This woman quit school in the eighth grade, but attended night classes in shorthand, typing, and stenography. Soon, he visited her at work regularly. Albert offered her a reader and copyist job at his magazine; two weeks later, she jumped at the chance. It paid better, and Ruth quit the New York Telephone Company after two years.

 

They dated often, as Albert wanted to get her in bed, but premarital sex was looked down upon in the 1920s. Ruth was the daughter of old-fashioned Scandinavian parents, Harry Sorenson of Norway and Josephine I. Anderson of Sweden, and hoped to remain a virgin until the night she married. He proposed, and Ruth accepted. Her European heritage was ironic, as there were claims she wanted Albert to Americanize his name to “Snyder,” as “Schneider” sounded too German. Her father was a sailor who became a carpenter and changed his name to Brown for similar reasons. Other sources disputed that Albert did this of his own free will, and his application for military service in World War I also listed his last name as Snyder a decade earlier.

 

She longed for the finer things in life, a contrast to her frugal upbringing with her parents and a brother, Andrew, born on October 17, 1889, in Norway. During her childhood, several items she wanted couldn't be afforded. A blonde-haired doll, a Shetland pony, a wristwatch, a white bedroom set, or a party dress. Ruth passed by the storefront window to see the doll each day and was upset when someone else bought it. Her parents also couldn't afford to take in plays at the theater.

 

However, Harry and Josephine Brown spent money on Ruth's medical procedures since she had seizures due to epilepsy. The six-year-old girl underwent intestinal surgery before her appendix was removed a few years later, and the botched operation left her with internal issues. Her family attended the Methodist Episcopal Church, and she was raised to pray each night before bed, but her faith wasn't strong. The girl even questioned the existence of God. She also had no high academic achievements in school or career goals.

 

Ruth desired marriage and got it with Albert. She was a housewife who cleaned, sewed, and cooked. Her wish was that he would provide “the good life,” not the humdrum existence of her immigrant parents. After they married in 1915, she realized she and her husband were two different people. He was introverted, deaf in one ear, and preferred conversations about artwork and books. He wanted to sit back and smoke a pipe while in a smoking jacket and slippers. She desired to socialize, play bridge, flirt, and dance at speakeasies like the flappers who emerged during the Jazz Age. The extrovert also never took to his main passions, sailing and hiking, but instead wanted to see movies.

 

Not only did his in-depth conversations bore her, but Albert compared Ruth to his dead love each time she turned around. He sported a necktie pin with the initials J.G., named his sailboat “the Jessie G.," and had an entire photo album featuring pictures of the beloved he lost on vacations they took. He topped this off by hanging her portrait in the living room. She was angry and took it down. This led to many arguments between the couple as he wanted it back up. At her insistence, his boat was renamed "Ruth.”

 

Ruth soon learned she was pregnant, although Albert didn't want to be a father. He was even more upset that it was a daughter. Lorraine Snyder was born on November 15, 1917. This further drove a wedge between them, as she became a devoted mother while Albert grumbled at the sound of a baby's cry early in the morning. He also detested the smells of diapers and how she ruined her body after childbirth, though some claim she agreed with him on that matter.

 

As things progressed, he spent more time on his boat or tinkering with his Buick while Ruth tended to the child. He allowed her to spend eighty-five dollars of his paycheck, one hundred and fifteen dollars a week, to teach her how to pay their bills and save money, but she blew every penny. By some accounts, he subjected them to emotional and physical abuse if she didn’t keep house the way he wanted.

 

The couple moved to an apartment in Brooklyn and then a larger one in the Bronx after Lorraine was born. Once Albert got a promotion at Motor Boating Magazine, they settled into a muted pink two-and-a-half-story house with green trim in the Queen's Village section of Queens in 1923. A driveway to its right led to a rear garage, not far from a birdfeeder made from a saucepan and a pole. Five-year-old Lorraine often filled the pan and awaited them. Sure enough, Jessie Guishard's portrait was installed in the new living room. While Ruth sewed curtains, slipcovers, and clothes for herself and Lorraine, her mother Josephine soon moved in to care for the grandchild.

 

This at last enabled her free-spirited daughter to party, dance, and drink. She even earned the nickname, “Gay Tommie.” Friends often said, "Ruth’s a lot of fun; let’s have her over, but Albert’s kind of a stick.” She lunched on a smorgasbord buffet with a girlfriend at the Swedish restaurant Henry's in 1925 when the thirty-two-year-old wife and mother met a Corset and brassiere salesman named Henry Judd Gray, who wore glasses and sported a chin cleft. Concerned about her weight since having a child, she asked for his help, and fell in love on their second meeting. A phrase he used to entice buyers in upstate department stores was, “Here’s a new line of bandeaux we’re putting out.”

 

Born in Cortland, New York, on July 8, 1892, the beloved son of Charles Beach and Margaret Ursula Carr Gray, he had an older sister, also named Margaret. Like Albert Snyder, he bonded with his mother and loved sports, like tennis and football. Like Ruth, his family was religious and attended church, but cared little for education. Judd, as he preferred to be called, left high school after two years thanks to a bout with pneumonia, while some claimed he graduated. He worked with his father at a jewelry store, but he soon found employment with the Ben Jolie Corset Company. A great guy who played golf and bridge, and motorboated, also much like Ruth and Albert. He also loved to drive his prized vehicle, served as a Red Cross volunteer during World War I, and belonged to the Orange Lodge of Elks, as well as the Corset Salesmen of the Empire Club.

 

He married his wife, Isabel Kallenbach, a shy woman who stayed at home, after they had dated for several years when he was twenty-two, and she was twenty-one. Many of his co-workers had no idea he was married to her. Ironically enough, they wed in 1915, the same year as Albert and Ruth Snyder. They attended a First Methodist Church, but some contended he was Episcopalian, not too different from his secret lover and her parents. The corset salesman was also involved in their Sunday school, and they resided in East Orange, New Jersey. The two couples even had daughters at almost the same age. Judd and Isabel's child, Jane, was born on August 25, 1916, in Albert's birthplace of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.




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Justin L. Murphy ©2026

Justin L. Murphy has self-published numerous works of fiction and non-fiction through Amazon Kindle and Audible. His book Gene L. Coon: The Unsung Hero of Star Trek has been featured at events in Coon’s birthplace of Beatrice, Nebraska. Other books he has written and released include Jack Kirby: The Unsung Hero of Marvel, The Original Night Stalker: Portrait of A Killer, and Joseph James DeAngelo: His Reign of Terror Is Over. He enjoys Photography and sells his work through Adobe Stock and enters his photos in contests through Gurushots. He travels to Florida campgrounds with his mother and brother.

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Lesa's Book Critiques: Poison at the Wild Haggis Bookshop by Jackie Baldwin

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Dru's Book Musings: New Releases ~ Week of February 22, 2026

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Lesa's Book Critiques: Kim Hays’s Ten Favorite Books in 2025

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