In Casablanca, in February 2015, I watched Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Sir John Hurt film scenes for the adaptation of...
Scott Adlerberg takes a close look at non-Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes novel A Taste for Honey by H.F. Heard. *****...
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The old-school pulp writers are all dead, but their creations’ shadows loom over the crime fiction genre. That’s the only...
If you were reading dark crime fiction in the nineteen eighties, then it’s almost certain that you remember Black Lizard...
From the right angle, crime fiction and horror fiction have a lot in common: alienated protagonists, transgressive thrills, and a...
Each year, the Edgar Awards are a thrilling opportunity to celebrate the best in crime writing, to cheer on friends,...
Using release of Black Mountain and paperback edition of Blood Standard as an excuse, Tobias Carroll takes a look at...
Midway through El Chicano, Ben Hernandez Bray’s debut film, Diego (played ably by Rául Castillo) finds himself going through a...
If you want to learn how to write devastatingly effective noir short stories, you need to read author who do...