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From my buddy Dave Zeltserman- Ed, here’s a question regarding your post today, especially about your comments about George Higgins. What’s ...

Following up on last night's post Jeff Pierce wrote: I guess I don't understand the difference between crime fiction and mysteries. ...

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I'm feeling a little better so I thought I'd start inflicting myself on you folks again. But first I want to get a plug in for my ol...

I've somehow managed to get pneumonia. A very weird day yesterday. I woke up with 101 fever. Even before I called my own doc another doc...

I was talking about mob fiction the other night and, as a few readers pointed out, forgot to comment on The Godfather. What can I say? One a...

The Man With The Iron-On Badge isn't Forgotten, it's just been neglected because so far the only edition has been a small hardcover ...

Last week I read at least a dozen articles touting this new TV season. Community got the most kudos, Glee running a distant second. As I alw...

Ed here: Salon has been running a series of articles about various injustices in our system of criminal justices. This one staggered me. Thi...

I watched Casino for the third or fourth time last night. This is remarkable for me because I'm not much for mob movies or mob fiction. ...

Think Walter Hill and you likely think of his enormous hit 48 Hours or Brewster's Millions or Streets of Fire. Crowd pleasers for sure....

I was writing a scene set in an alley of the kind most of us over fifty are probably familiar with when I realized that there are millions o...

MERRY, MERRY GHOST by Carolyn Hart ...

I always forget that people are going to get mad when I talk politics. I get mad when I read the political sentiments of other people. Why s...

A lot of us who write westerns read a fair share of history about our country as it pushed west. I like to look through old journals in used...

I've always maintained that anything created for the good of mankind will within thirty days be turned into something bad for mankind. H...

There was so much drumbeat about "Glee" we thought our TV would be taken away if we didn't watch it. I have to say up front th...

Starred Publisher's Weekly Review An interview with Tom Piccirilli Tell us about Shadow Season. SHADOW SEASON is a crime/suspense novel...

Turner has been running Joan Blondell movies for the past week and it's been particularly interesting for me because by the early Fiftie...

Don Westlake used to say that he didn't like to outline, that he preferred letting the story take him where it chose to go. I suppose th...