It’s Enough to Make Me Blush

My note this last Sunday about The Rap Sheet’s 10th anniversary spurred a remarkable bounty of generous and enthusiastic remarks. But nobody wrote quite as much about that milestone as Terence Towles Canote, who penned a whole post about it for his own excellent blog, A Shroud of Thoughts. It reads, in part:

For those of you unfamiliar with The Rap Sheet, it is a blog dedicated to crime fiction (the blog dedicated to crime fiction, in my opinion). What is more, The Rap Sheet doesn’t simply cover the printed word, but also television shows, films, and radio shows as well. Over the years The Rap Sheet has featured articles on The NBC Mystery Movie, the classic radio show Suspense, and the films based on Dashiell Hammett’s classic The Maltese Falcon. The Rap Sheet benefits from having multiple contributors, many of who are “top professionals” (to borrow a phrase from the American introduction to The Avengers). They don’t simply write about crime fiction, they have actually written crime fiction. Quite simply, among The Rap Sheet’s contributors are actual crime novelists. ...

For years now The Rap Sheet has been an invaluable resource for fans of crime fiction. It has always been both very informative and enjoyable to read. Here is to another ten years!

Thank you, Terence—and thank you, everyone!—for your support.