The Rap Sheet

Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider . Renegades of Time , by Raymond F. Jones (Laser, 19750. Cover illus...

Anyone who’s read Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon (and who among us hasn’t?) knows about John’s Grill in downtown San Francisco. Loc...

Ceremonies were held today in Paris to observe Armistice Day . Led by French President Emmanuel Macron—whose speech made clear to world lead...

As my maternal grandfather told me when I was a boy, he was only 14 or 15 years old and living in Canada when World War I broke out in Eu...

Front page of the New York Daily News , October 31, 1938. It was 80 years ago tonight, on October 30, 1938, that actor Orson Welles “vau...

Congratulations to The Spy Command, which today turns 10 years old . I know how much work goes into keeping a blog active and interesting fo...

• Mystery Fanfare brings the unhappy news that Aunt Agatha’s Mystery Bookshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan—which won the 2014 Raven Award from t...

Today marks two decades since the launch of one of the Web’s most valuable and interesting resources for crime-fiction lovers: Kevin Burton ...

I might well have forgotten all about this, had it not been for the blog Spy Vibe, which mentioned earlier this morning that Ian Fleming...

It was 50 years ago tonight that Lieutenant Columbo, as portrayed by Peter Falk , first appeared on American television screens. As Radio Ti...

Please forgive the recent paucity of fresh posts on this page, but I’ve been busy finishing up a couple of large projects over the last two ...