Fast Finds

• Pennyworth, which “explores the youth of Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon), who would grow up to become the proper and ultra-loyal adult companion of young Bruce Wayne, better known as Batman,” will premiere tonight at 9 p.m. ET on Epix.

• Today’s edition of The New York Times Book Review offers a variety of pieces bound to delight fans of crime and thriller fiction. Look especially for a “bloody map of 50 true-crime killings” and a “survey of writers’ favorite murders.”

• R.I.P. Orania Papazoglou, better known as mystery author Jane Haddam, and Sarah Andrews, “a geologist who wrote 11 mysteries about forensic geologist Em Hansen.”

• Jeff Bridges will star in The Old Man, an FX-TV series “based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Thomas Perry.”

• Author-publisher Lee Goldberg announced on Facebook yesterday that he’s found a version of a new Jim Hardman novel.

• The podcast Wrong Place, Write Crime talks with Brian Thornton, editor of the new anthology Die Behind the Wheel: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan (Down & Out).

• And the next issue of Mystery Readers Journal will focus on mysteries featuring private investigators. Submissions are invited, with a due date of September 1.