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Another Reimagined Dud?Maybe I’m just getting cranky in my old age, but my patience with classic crime TV series and films being revamped for modern audiences has grown...
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Murder, He WrotePeter S. Fischer , who co-created the CBS-TV mystery series Murder, She Wrote , in addition to scripting episodes of Columbo , Ellery Queen ,...
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Swanson’s Single-Sitting Stunner(Editor’s note: This is the second Rap Sheet submission by Northern California resident Peter Handel , who has reviewed and written about crime...
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What Might You Be Missing?November promises a passel of new book releases in the crime/mystery/thriller field. Among those will be Ausma Zehanat Khan’s Blood Betrayal , Lee...
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Digitizing DamesRobert Deis, one of the principal editors responsible for getting The Art of Ron Lesser Volume 1: Deadly Dames and Sexy Sirens before the...
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Additional Daggers DueYou can expect to see two brand-new Dagger awards among those being handed out in 2025 by the British Crime Writers’ Association. A press release...
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The Story Behind the Story: “A Good Rush of Blood,” by Matt Phillips(Editor’s note: This is the 98th entry in The Rap Sheet’s “ Story Behind the Story ” series. Its author is Matt Phillips , who now lives in San...
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The Oldfangled Author in ResidenceEons ago I worked for a slick periodical called Monthly Detroit (later Detroit Monthly ), which—until it vanished as a standalone publication in...
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The Martians Have Landed!(Editor’s note: I don’t usually repost stories from The Rap Sheet’s archives. But with today marking the 85th anniversary of Orson Welles’...
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About Our Book-Collecting HabitsThis item comes from The Literary Saloon : At YouGov David Montgomery reports on their latest survey, determining “ How many books Americans...
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PW’s Chart ToppersPublishers Weekly is out with its choices of the “Best Books of 2023.” Its Mystery/Thriller list contains the following 12 titles: • All...
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Revue of Reviewers: 10-26-23Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more....
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Taylor Swift — Secret Espionage Novelist?Come on, who really believes singer Taylor Swift could’ve found time in her hectic schedule to pen a novel that’s said to “reinvent the spy...
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Goodbye, Mr. RoundtreeI first encountered this news last evening, and hoped that by morning it would be revealed as fiction. No such luck. From Variety : Richard...
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PaperBack: “The Hoods Come Calling”Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider . The Hoods Come Calling , by “Nick Quarry,” aka Marvin H....
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A Fan and Scholar Like No OtherToday brings the sad news that Marvin S. Lachman—“one of the world’s preeminent [mystery fiction] scholars, writing extensively about the field in...
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A Bit Tardy, but Still WelcomeThose of us who attended this year’s Bouchercon in San Diego were surprised to hear that no announcement of the 2023 Macavity Award winners would...
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Well, That’s Embarrassing!From publisher Hard Case Crime’s X (aka Twitter) page: Click on the image for an enlargement. The Rap Sheet’s extensive list of new...
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Bullet Points: Info Dump Edition• It’s only the third week of October , but already American bookseller Barnes & Noble has announced what it says are the “Best Mystery...
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Commending Irish and Adventure FictionThe shortlists have been announced for this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards. Categories range from Popular Fiction, Non-fiction, and Cookbook to...
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Albert’s Foray Into MacLean TerritoryOver in my Killer Covers blog, I have just posted a longish and abundantly illustrated piece about a quartet of Alistair MacLeanesque paperback...
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Endangered Women Thriller Wins PetronaSwedish journalist-turned-fictionist Pascal Engman’s Femicide (Legend Press, 2022), translated by Michael Gallagher, has won the 2023 Petrona...
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Rosen Revisits a Less Tolerant Bay Area(Editor’s note: The following article comes from longtime journalist Kevin Canfield , whose work has appeared in The New York Times , The...
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PaperBack: “Pretty Miss Murder”Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider . Pretty Miss Murder , by Willis Todhunter “W.T.” Ballard...
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Promoting Diversity at CrimeFestFor the third year in a row, Britain’s CrimeFest “is offering a bursary [aka scholarship] for a crime fiction writer of colour to attend its...
