Sweet Freedom: Mathew Paust, RIP

Sweet Freedom: Mathew Paust, RIP: Matt's Blog:  Crime Time Here's the obit he wrote for himself, as he could see the end, with bladder cancer: Mathew David Paust has...

Crime Time : NADJA ON NADJA – Tsipi Keller

Crime Time : NADJA ON NADJA – Tsipi Keller: Subtle surprises came at times on the turn of a single word the several hours I spent captive in Nadja's head. I found these unexpect...

Gravetapping: "A Real Nice Guy" by William F. Nolan

Gravetapping: "A Real Nice Guy" by William F. Nolan: His name was Jimmie Prescott and he is thirty-one years of age. Five foot ten. Slight build.   He’s a loner. A sniper. A killer. The s...

Crime Time : IN SEARCH OF MURDER – Roderic Jeffries

Crime Time : IN SEARCH OF MURDER – Roderic Jeffries: I’m pretty sure now that I’ve just read In Search of Murder , the thirty-seventh and final episode in the Inspector Alvarez series, that ...

Crime Time : THE DEATH OF MR. LOMAS – Francis Vivian

Crime Time : THE DEATH OF MR. LOMAS – Francis Vivian: There was a character actor who always got bumped off in movies I watched as a kid. Soon as I saw him on the screen, as a hotel clerk, a ba...

Crime Time : DEATH OF A DISSIDENT – Stuart Kaminsky

Crime Time : DEATH OF A DISSIDENT – Stuart Kaminsky: My initial brainstorm was to copy Stuart Kaminsky's complete introduction to the Mysterious Press edition of his Death of a Disside...

Crime Time : TROUBLED DEATHS – Roderic Jeffries

Crime Time : TROUBLED DEATHS – Roderic Jeffries: Because of my neighbors, who've become hypersensitized to my sonorous emoting while engrossed in crime novels, I nearly choked tryi...

Crime Time : TWO-FACED DEATH –Roderic Jeffries

Crime Time : TWO-FACED DEATH –Roderic Jeffries: I wish I could say I read somewhere recently an IT innovation would be available soon--some sort of software, I imagine--that would enabl...

Crime Time : THE SINGING MASONS – Francis Vivian

Crime Time : THE SINGING MASONS – Francis Vivian: I will remember the stuff about bees in The Singing Masons long after I've forgotten the plot and the human characters and the name o...

Crime Time : UNEXPECTED NIGHT – Elizabeth Daly

Crime Time : UNEXPECTED NIGHT – Elizabeth Daly: Amberley Cowden is found dead the morning of his twenty-first birthday, the day he inherits a million dollars. A Gypsy finds the body on a ...

Gravetapping: DEATH OF A CITIZEN by Donald Hamilton

Gravetapping: DEATH OF A CITIZEN by Donald Hamilton: Matt Helm is a solid citizen. He is married with three children. He makes a living writing popular novels (western’s mostly), and lives ...

Crime Time : NIGHTFALL – David Goodis

Crime Time : NIGHTFALL – David Goodis: Your name is David Goodis. You’re a guy who lives on luck, whose only talent is stringing together words. Your streak of shitty luck, c...

Crime Time : IN RE: SHERLOCK HOLMES – THE ADVENTURES OF SOLAR P...

Crime Time : IN RE: SHERLOCK HOLMES – THE ADVENTURES OF SOLAR P...: As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst ...

Crime Time : LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK – Colin Dexter

Crime Time : LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK – Colin Dexter: After a fitful ride on Last Bus to Woodstock I doubt I shall read anything more by Colin Dexter. Ever again. I can't remember w...

Crime Time : TATIANA – Martin Cruz Smith

Crime Time : TATIANA – Martin Cruz Smith: Say goodbye to Arkady Renko. I have this chilly foreboding we'll not see him again, that five years ago Tatiana was his valedictory ...

Crime Time : BEARSKIN – James A. McLaughlin

Crime Time : BEARSKIN – James A. McLaughlin: Thriller. Hands down, thumbs up, no quibbling. We know this from the git-go. Bearskin , the debut novel by James A. McLaughlin, her...

Crime Time : ARKADY RENKO'S ASTOUNDING TRUST IN MARTIN CRUZ SMI...

Crime Time : ARKADY RENKO'S ASTOUNDING TRUST IN MARTIN CRUZ SMI...: Please consider this an intermission in my weekly reporting on the eight -episode series featuring Martin Cruz Smith's incredible ...

Crime Time : GIVE ME YOUR HAND – Megan Abbott

Crime Time : GIVE ME YOUR HAND – Megan Abbott: A couple of years ago a friend dismissed me with words I'd never have imagined could sting so deep. Her voice, distantly glacial, i...

Crime Time : THE CASE OF THE MARVELOUS MASON MACHINE – Mathew P...

Crime Time : THE CASE OF THE MARVELOUS MASON MACHINE – Mathew P...: At long last it can be revealed : Perry Mason and his associates were in fact a highly classified cell of fantastics working undercove...

Crime Time : THE OVERSTORY -- Richard Powers

Crime Time : THE OVERSTORY -- Richard Powers: I approached The Overstory with the kind of wavering curiosity those apes in 2001: A Space Odyssey had for the mysterious, shiny b...