In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure-dome decree … The cover is electrifying. Sinuous, sensuous, enticing, entrancing…seemingly created by the same magic the story’s about. In actuality, it was created by that mercurial genius Michael William Kaluta, one of the greatest graphic artists to come of age in the 1970s, and the cover in question…
City of Ghosts by Kelli Stanley is the 3rd historical mystery featuring investigator Miranda Corbie as she travels the United States during the early days of WWII (available August 5, 2014). June, 1940. For the United States, war is on the horizon. For Miranda Corbie, private investigator and erstwhile escort, there are debts to be…
I’ve got a confession to make. I love hats. Long before hipsters strolled the streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York sporting snap brim, modified fedoras that typically look more like Bing Crosby playing golf than Frank Sinatra swinging at the Sands, I’d buy head gear at flea markets and garage sales:…
An excerpt from Scoundrels, an anthology edited by Gary Phillips (available March 18, 2012). In this arresting anthology you’ll read stories of gabbing grifters, brokers hedging big bets for the big take, schemers working the long con for the sure money, used car salesmen with golden dreams and dashed hopes, bent lawyers and their more…
’Tis the season for tricks, treats and caramel apples, that wild and crazy fall festival and social pact we call Halloween. It’s also the season for superheroes and heroines, masked and costumed do-gooders or do-badders, the time of year when comic book pages leap to life. So let’s get creative and check out the masked…
When young Pandora Blake is murdered at San Francisco’s 1940 World Fair and her body marked with an anti-Semitic slur, Private Investigator and former escort Miranda Corbie is soon entangled in a web of deceit and betrayal that is only overshadowed by the threat of impending war. All too soon, Miranda finds herself in a battle…
Meet Miranda Corbie, ex-escort, new PI, and old hand at working security for Sally Rand’s Nude Ranch at the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair. Like the city of San Francisco, she’ll resonate in your own memory, long after you finish the story. From award-winning author Kelli Stanley, Memory Book is the first short story to…
Every January I renew my commitment to the genre that has given me so much inspiration by attending the Noir City film festival in San Francisco, where I, along with thousands of other acolytes, are enthralled by the gorgeous cinematography, riveted by the pithy dialog, and held captive by the giant, black and white images…
