Tonight Is the Deadline

... for entering our contest to win free passes to CrimeFest 2009, scheduled to take place in Bristol, England, from Thursday, May 14, through Sunday, May 17. All you have to do to be in the running for one of three passes is to correctly answer four questions associated with this year’s CrimeFest guests of honor:

(1) Simon Brett
Which one of Brett’s non-series novels was made into a film starring Michael Caine?

(2) Michael Connelly
What connects Connelly to The Garden of Earthly Delights?

(3) Håkan Nesser
What’s the name of the first title in the Inspector Van Veeteren series?

(4) Andrew Taylor
What is Caroline Minuscule?

E-mail your answers, along with your postal address and a contact telephone number, to rapsheet@crimefest.com. Entries must be received by midnight tonight.

This prize--which is valued at £135--does not include travel expenses, accommodations, or admittance to the convention’s Gala Dinner on Saturday evening. (Tickets to that dinner can be purchased separately at £35 apiece.) For more information about next month’s CrimeFest, click here.