crime fiction

3 min read 2022-06-24 01:05:00

James O. Causey’s The Baby Doll Murders

The Baby Doll Murders was James O. Causey’s second novel. It was published in 1957. Cliff Tierney works as a dealer in Vegas, or at least that was

2 min read 2022-06-17 03:48:00

What would you do if your child committed a crime? That’s the question explored in Saving Noah, by Lucinda Berry. A short book that reads as

4 min read 2022-06-08 20:30:00

Interview conducted by Jennifer D. Foster and Alicja Minda. Louise Harnby is a professional fiction editor with 30 years’ publishing experience

3 min read 2022-06-01 22:13:00

Peter Cheyney (1896-1951) was an Englishman who had a very successful career writing American-style pulp thrillers, beginning in 1936. Cheyney

2 min read 2022-05-28 01:47:00

The Cypher Letter is a Nick Carter mystery.Nick Carter is a fictional character with an intriguing history. He began life as a Sherlock Holmes-style

24 min read 2022-05-09 13:10:00

In this inspirational interview, crime writer Angela Marsons talks about how she overcame years of rejection and broke out of societal expectations

4 min read 2022-05-02 23:04:00

Frederick Lorenz’s The Savage Chase is a 1954 noir novel and it’s a wild roller-coaster ride.Lorenz Heller (1910-1965) wrote pulp crime novels

2 min read 2022-04-28 20:00:00

This is part of my ongoing series on using Awards Lists as a RA tool. Click here for all posts in the series in reverse chronological order. Click

3 min read 2022-04-22 04:42:00

Turn On the Heat, published under the name A.A. Fair in 1940, was the second of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Cool and Lam private eye novels.Gardner

3 min read 2022-04-08 12:00:35

I’m grappling with a conundrum about point of view. Part of me loves writing in first person. Writing from the “I/we” perspective allows the

5 min read 2022-04-07 21:09:00

The Italian Connection, published in 1972, is the first of Glen Chase’s Cherry Delight sexy crime/spy thrillers.Glen Chase was one of the

2 min read 2022-04-07 00:05:00

One of my favorite places to get information about trendy book topics is Book Riot. Why? It is precisely because they are actively trying to get

2 min read 2022-03-29 15:39:00

Marvin H. Albert (1924-1996) was an American who wrote in a number of different genres using quite a few different pseudonyms. He wrote westerns. He

3 min read 2022-03-23 19:16:45

Over the last month or so, a small flurry of people (more than two, less that five) have asked about the influences, if any, of my early reading

5 min read 2022-03-11 15:59:51

We’re delighted to have teamed up with Comma Press and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) as Media Partner for the fifth annual