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New Webzine in Town

Jack Hardway’s Crime Magazine, a newly launched webzine, is well worth a visit for fans and writers of short crime fiction and of noir in various formats. The first issue features six short stories by...

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In the Spirit of the Season

I was in the supermarket the other day waiting on line behind a woman with four young children. She was searching in her purse, apparently having trouble finding enough money to pay for her purchases...

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Playing Fair

An argument could made that the two most important sentences in a mystery are the first and the last: the tempting appetizer and the satisfying, if not necessarily sweet, dessert. In my own writing,...

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For Your Reading (Watching, and Listening) Pleasure

Ten years ago this month, Joe DeMarco took over publication of Mysterical-e. In the editor’s column of the current issue, Joe outlines plans for the future of this always interesting, beautifully...

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Finally

This winter, like a clueless guest who ignores his host’s glazed eyes, seems finally to be inching toward the door. I say ‘seems’ because the stuff coming down yesterday afternoon was definitely not...

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Daffodils Again: a poem for whatever you’re celebrating on this April Sunday

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the...

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John Harvey: Darkness, Darkness

Darkness, Darkness is John Harvey’s twelfth and—alas—final Charlie Resnick novel. When we leave Resnick at the end of the book he’s sipping coffee on a bench in Nottingham’s Old Market Square and...

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On Re-Reading “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

I brought Flannery O’Connor’s collected short stories with us to the Cape last week and had the pleasure of rediscovering “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” a tragic/comic crime story by a literary writer...

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Damned If You Don’t: The First Two Pages

I’m always interested in reading writers on writing. For that reason I’ve enjoyed following B.K. Stevens’ blog, The First Two Pages, where authors are asked to reflect on and discuss the decisions they...

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Amazon: A Personal Decision

After reading the August 16th New York Times expose on white-collar working conditions at Amazon, and reading further about conditions in Amazon’s warehouses, I’ve decided to shop elsewhere.  Details...

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