Patricia Abbott: Short Story Wednesday: DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE

 Patricia Abbott: Short Story Wednesday: DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE

Rough Edges: Wayne D. Dundee RIP

This is horrible news. Not only because of his story telling talent, but the fact that he was just a damn nice guy. I'd been reading his stuff and reviewing for quite sometime when Sandi got sick. He'd been there and done that so he checked in every now and then. Then, after she died, he made a point for the first couple of years to check in on me pretty often and make sure I was hanging in and coping as best as I could. He knew the hell I was going through and so, whether he called or emailed, he got it. I'd known his health was bad, but I hadn't emailed back and forth with him in quite awhile as I have been dealing with my own health and other worries here. This hits hard. 

Rough Edges: Wayne D. Dundee RIP: I'm having a hard time processing the fact that Wayne Dundee has passed away. I knew his health was bad and so I'm not really surpri...

Patricia Abbott: Short Story Wednesday: THE HARDBOILED DICKS, An Anthology by Ron Goulart, (reveiwed by James Reasoner)

 Patricia Abbott: Short Story Wednesday: THE HARDBOILED DICKS, An Anthology by Ron Goulart, (reveiwed by James Reasoner)

Patricia Abbott: Short Story Wednesday" FROM HARD-BOILED

 Patricia Abbott: Short Story Wednesday" FROM HARD-BOILED

Dark City Underground: Booked (and Printed): September 2024

 Dark City Underground: Booked (and Printed): September 2024

Dark City Underground: REVIEW: “DEATH AND THE DANCING SHADOWS” BY JAMES REASONER

 Dark City Underground: REVIEW: “DEATH AND THE DANCING SHADOWS” BY JAMES REASONER

The Rap Sheet: A Surprise Christmas Gift

 The Rap Sheet: A Surprise Christmas Gift

Dark City Underground Review: Dust Devils by James Reasoner

 Dark City Underground Review: Dust Devils by James Reasoner

Rough Edges: Forgotten Books: Little Sister - Lee Roberts (Robeert Martin)

Rough Edges: Forgotten Books: Little Sister - Lee Roberts (Robe...: I remember reading some of Robert Martin’s novels featuring private detective Jim Bennett many years ago and liking them quite a bit, ...

FROM DUNDEE'S DESK: Noteworthy Reads: THE PATRIOTS Series by James Rea...

FROM DUNDEE'S DESK: Noteworthy Reads: THE PATRIOTS Series by James Rea...: Back in the 1992 – 94 time period, under the pen name Adam Rutledge, James Reasoner wrote a six-volume series of books for Bantam entitle...

Western Fictioneers: Western Fictioneers Announces the 8th Annual Peace...

Western Fictioneers: Western Fictioneers Announces the 8th Annual Peace...: (For Westerns Published in 2017) BEST FIRST WESTERN NOVEL: GALLOWAY’S GAMBLE by Howard Weinstein (Five Star Publishing) ...

Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and The Wild West: STEPHEN MERTZ returns to detective fiction with SA...

Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and The Wild West: STEPHEN MERTZ returns to detective fiction with SA...: Steve Mertz’s first book, way back in 1979, was a detective novel called Some Die Hard (reviewed HERE ). Since then, over the course o...

Do Some Damage: A Detective With a Six-Shooter: Longarm and the Bo...

Do Some Damage: A Detective With a Six-Shooter: Longarm and the Bo...: by Scott D. Parker Mysteries don't always happen in big cities or the English countryside. Sometimes they occur in the Old West. ...

Rough Edges: Hardboiled, Noir, and Gold Medals: Essays on Crime...

Rough Edges: Hardboiled, Noir, and Gold Medals: Essays on Crime...: Rick Ollerman's detailed critical essays, written about both modern and classic crime writers, have an electric-charged verve so b...

Gravetapping: Bullet Reviews: A smattering of praise

Gravetapping: Bullet Reviews: A smattering of praise: You may have noticed already (or not) that I’ve been struggling with posting new reviews on the blog recently. This is due to myriad reas...

Rough Edges: A Most Auspicious Star - Martin L. Shoemaker

Rough Edges: A Most Auspicious Star - Martin L. Shoemaker: Martin L. Shoemaker is quickly becoming one of my favorite new science fiction writers. His e-book novella A MOST AUSPICIOUS STAR is the ta...

Rough Edges: Treasure of Ice and Fire - Wayne D. Dundee

Rough Edges: Treasure of Ice and Fire - Wayne D. Dundee: Wayne D. Dundee isn’t just one of the best hardboiled mystery and Western writers around these days. With the release of TREASURE OF ICE ...

Rough Edges: Now Available: Weird Menace Volume 1

Rough Edges: Now Available: Weird Menace Volume 1: The Weird Menace pulps flourished for less than a decade, from the mid-1930s to the early '40s, but while they were popular, they del...

Rough Edges: Coming Soon: Weird Menace Volume 2

Rough Edges: Coming Soon: Weird Menace Volume 2: Perfect reading for this Halloween season. Stories include: "The Spider-God of Nauru!" by Mel Odom "Lust of the Cave Sp...

Rough Edges: Coming Soon: Weird Menace Volume 1

Rough Edges: Coming Soon: Weird Menace Volume 1: That cover sort of says it all, doesn't it? And this is only the first volume. Volume 2 will also be out later this month. UPDATE: ...