The Rap Sheet

• Deadly Pleasures ’ George Easter points me toward a very entertaining, 90-minute podcast discussion of this year’s top crime and mystery...

There’s no great mystery here. Due to conflicting editorial responsibilities, I have fallen terribly behind in acknowledging the deaths of p...

• Journalist and author Richard Hammer , who died on October 17 at age 93, is remembered for having penned what The New York Times says we...

Arnold Hano was born in New York City back in March 1922. He grew up to become a copy boy for the New York Daily News , a book editor, an a...

• Looking for another crime-writing contest? According to a press release , the Glencairn Glass —touted as “the world’s favourite whisky gl...

We must acknowledge, if belatedly, the death of William P. “Bill” Arney, who is said to have “reclaimed” the apartment, at 891 Post Street i...

• The long-overdue recent premiere of No Time to Die , Daniel Craig’s fifth and final James Bond picture, has provoked a deluge of articles,...

• Having enjoyed Simon Scarrow’s Blackout , a World War II-era thriller released in Great Britain earlier this year, I was overjoyed to hea...

I’ve been trying for some while now to find time enough to compile one of my lengthy “Bullet Points” posts, in which I could mention a few r...

It was late yesterday afternoon, shortly before the start of Bouchercon’s Anthony Awards presentation , when I heard that Caroline Todd—who,...

• First it was former U.S. president Bill Clinton . Now country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton is collaborating with best-seller James Patt...