A Bit Here, a Bit There ...

This has been an all-over-the-map week for me, work-wise. There’s so much to catch up on here, but I can’t do it all at once. For now, just a few tidbits worth mentioning. More to follow.

• Baltimore novelist Laura Lippman (Life Sentences) has been elected as president of the Mystery Writers of America for 2010. She’ll follow Lee Child in that post.

• The further investigations of Sam Spade, private eye: This week’s episode, brought to you by Davy Crockett’s Almanack, is titled “The Apple of Eve Caper.”

• The latest short fiction offering in Beat to a Pulp comes from pseudonymous San Francisco writer Cormac Brown. His contribution is called “They Come from Above.”

• Mark Billingham’s series detective, London-based police Inspector Tom Thorne, is bound for TV screens in the form of actor David Morrissey, according to Karen Meek of Euro Crime.

• I had no idea that it was so hard to catalogue all the early works by best-selling novelist Nelson DeMille.

• Good news for a change.

• The comedy-spy series Chuck will return to NBC on January 10.

• And blogger Paul Bishop of Bish’s Beat got it into his head recently to celebrate “spy girls” in all of their varied, vain, and vivacious glory. The results are here.