The Rap Sheet

If you click over to the Web site of publisher Down & Out Books , you’ll find a short notice offering nothing but bad news: For 15 remar...

• Shortly after I posted on this page about the 50th anniversary of the debut of Columbo as part of the NBC Mystery Movie “ wheel series ...

• Down & Out: The Magazine , founded as a quarterly print/e-book periodical and helmed by the ever-resilient Rick Ollerman, debuted in t...

• A much-deserved accolade , mentioned yesterday in Literary Hub : “John le Carré, perhaps history’s greatest spy novelist, was this morning...

Over the last few weeks, I have received several notes asking me about the future of Down & Out: The Magazine . That handsome, perfect-b...

So I have finally returned to Rap Sheet headquarters after an almost two-weeks-long train journey through western Canada, mostly touring Ban...

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