Category: Books

I’m a big fan of Fredric Brown’s work, though I’ve read a lot more of his short stories than his novels. The Late Lamented is the third novel I’ve read in his Ed & Am Hunter private eye series, …

Unlicensed private eye Jim Hardman and his buddy and sometimes partner Hump Evans are at a boxing match when Hump happens across a discarded invitation to a private party. He decides to crash it, but Hardman takes a pass. …

Many years ago, when I was eleven or twelve, I had to go in the hospital to have a broken eardrum repaired. To pass the time while I was there, my parents brought me a stack of books, including …

Over the weekend I was cleaning out my to-be-read stack, which resides in a drawer in my bedside table. Books tend to drift to the bottom, never to be heard from again, so I got everything straightened up so …

There’s a school of thought that every new crime novel needs to hit the ground running. You need a gun on page 1, a shot on page 2, and a body on page 3. I don’t subscribe to …