The Rap Sheet

Caleb Carr , the Manhattan-born military historian and author most widely recognized for penning the 1994 period crime novel The Alienist , ...

• For the last 20 months , New York City bookseller and editor Otto Penzler has been counting down, in the electronic pages of CrimeReads, a...

• If you’re not sufficiently aware of this already , tomorrow night will bring the debut of HBO-TV’s eight-part Perry Mason mini-series sta...

• Here’s a mystery for you: Earlier this year—following TNT-TV’s late-2018 broadcast of a mini-series based on The Alienist , Caleb Carr’s ...

I just returned from a few days away, spent in a place where (thank heavens!) I had absolutely no access to computers but plenty of opportun...

Now you know what happens when I spend too much time away from my office: I return with more to say than will fit into one post . • This s...

We’ve been hearing for months about plans to turn Caleb Carr’s 1994 novel, The Alienist , into a series for U.S. cable-TV network TNT, but i...