social observations includes word of his encounters with South Africa author Deon Meyer and New Zealand blogger Craig Sisterson; his musings on a new graphic novel release from Titan (“an homage to classic police detective TV shows”); his thoughts on political correctness in book titling; his surprise at the dearth of Scandinavian mysteries mentioned in the forthcoming work Books to Die For (edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke); his discovery of what may be the first crime novel in which “the main sleuth hero plies his trade (in this case as a lawyer), on Gibraltar”; and his recommendation of The Sherlock Holmes Miscellany, a compendium of information about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s renowned snooper.You can enjoy Ripley’s full column here.
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