Wednesday, August 30, 2006

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

The latest edition of Mystery News recently came winging through my mail slot. Its cover story focuses on Dallas’ Harry Hunsicker, author of the new private-eye novel The Next Time You Die. Inside are profiles of Canadian Louise Penny (Still Life) and Australian Kerry Greenwood (Flying Too High), as well as a lively retrospective on Raoul F. Whitfield, “the forgotten man of hardboiled fiction.” And Marv Lachman promotes Dick Francis’ forthcoming novel, Under Orders, by reminding readers of that jockey-turned-author’s past success at penning horse-racing mysteries (he’s especially fond of 1965’s Odds Against).

Unfortunately, out of all the contents mentioned here, only part of Gary Warren Niebuhr’s story about Hunsicker is available online.

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