From the monthly archives: May 2013
by BJW Nashe
In the world of fiction, Abraham Lincoln has been involved in some pretty wild escapades during the past few years. He has not only won the Civil War and freed the slaves, but also hunted scores of vampires, and been impeached by Congress. He has […]
by Patrick H. Moore
A veteran CIA officer who served in Moscow during the climax of the Cold War in the 1980’s sat down with All Things Crime Blog for an interview to discuss the spy scandal that erupted in Moscow […]
posted by Patrick H. Moore
Heroin used to be king — the horror drug, subject of literary masterworks, the bringer of pain and the killer of hopes and dreams. Then something funny happened on the way to the 1980’s — heroin went out of […]
book review by Patrick H. Moore
David W. Thayer’s new crime thriller, Black Forest, available in e-version at Amazon.com, may keep you up all night reading breathlessly, fighting off the confounding desire to look ahead to see what happens next. Don’t. Try to […]
by Peter Maiden
“He had been a man it was impossible to dislike. How many do you meet in a lifetime you can say that about?” This reflection in the mind of world-famous sleuth Philip Marlowe, in Raymond Chandler’s masterpiece The Long Goodbye, […]
by Bob Couttie
Not every headstone in Arlington National Cemetery marks a body. In the case of Ensign Andrew Lee Muns, a body can never be recovered: it vanished into the air over the South China Sea some forty-five years ago. While his body […]
1. Dog Soldiers, by Robert Stone
Dog Soldiers may be the best thriller ever written by an American. Set in the tumultuous early 1970s, the story follows John Converse, a journalist on his way back to California from Vietnam, who decides that sending a […]
