This blog celebrates detective stories - tales of crime, mystery and suspense – in print and on film, television, radio and the stage. It shares more than a little with my old Aficionado blog.
Thanks for visiting.
Sergio
Currently off the shelf
Cocaine Blues, by Kerry Greenwood-
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- Town on Trial (1957) – Tuesday’s Forgotten Film
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- SOME OF YOUR BLOOD (1961) by Theodore Sturgeon
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'Best of' lists 87th Precinct 2012 Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge Agatha Christie Audio Review Big Finish Columbo Crime Fiction Alphabet Dashiell Hammett DVD Review Ed McBain Ellery Queen Espionage Film Noir Five Star review Friday's Forgotten Book Hammer Studios Jimmy Sangster London Los Angeles New York Philip Marlowe Police procedural Private Eye Raymond Chandler Ross Macdonald Scene of the crime Sherlock Holmes Tuesday's Forgotten Film Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge 2011
Loved the blog, which I discovered thanks to Rap Sheet.
You might be interested (occasionally) in my monthly “Getting Away With Murder” in Shots Magazine here in the UK.
Keep up the good work.
Dear Mike,
what an honour – thanks very much for the kind words and for reminding me to put “Shots Magazine” and your column on my blogroll, where they belong.
All the best,
Sergio
Well I wish you’d told me about this earlier! I still refer to that guide to mystery and police procedural authors that you made for me years ago. I’ve been exposed to so many great authors and books via your recommendations!
I’ve been rumbled! Hello Jamus and welcome to the playpen.
I just nominated you for a blog award. You can read about it here:
http://livius1.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/ending-the-year-on-a-high/
Thanks Colin, that’s very generous and really great company you’ve put me in – cheers mate.
Sergio
Hi Sergio. Love your blog, and just included it on a page of noir links on my new baseball murder mystery site, which launches this coming Friday.
http://mystery58.wordpress.com/the-mysterians/
Cheers mate, that very kind of you. Great to be in such fine criminous company!
All the best,
Sergio
Sergio – I found your site while looking for Johnny Fedora crime novels – Tipping my fedora I guess is quite close. I’m more than pleasantly pleased by your website. Congratulations,
Would be great to get your views on Johnny Fedora novels of which I’m becoming a fan. First came across him via Mike Ripley who you clearly know.
Hello Frank, sorry about the lack of coverage of Desmond Cory so far – I’ll have to try and remedy that in the future. Truth is I haven’t read the Fedora books. Of course, compared with Mike Ripley, when it comes to crime fiction very few of us really know what we’re talking about anyway! I’ll have to see about digging some of the books out though – thanks very much for the stimulus to action …