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Ed McBain

A Brit’s 400-mile Road Trip Hunting American Crime

By A.D. Garrett

July 30, 2015

Road trip – had to be a winner, right? As a kid growing up in the narrow streets of northern England, I knew America as surely as I knew the grey concrete of my own back yard. For years, I had a recurring dream; I was driving along a winding coast road – steep rocky…

From Page to Screen with Ed McBain’s King’s Ransom and Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low

By Brian Greene

April 18, 2015

I’ve been a fan of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 suspense film High and Low since I saw it years ago. I just watched it again after my first read of the 87th Precinct novel it’s based on: Ed McBain’s 1959 procedural King’s Ransom – the 10th installment of the highly-celebrated series penned by Evan Hunter under…

Alfred Hitchcock Presents...

The Big Literary Guns Behind Alfred Hitchcock Presents

By William I. Lengeman III

March 4, 2012

I’ve watched a number of episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents over the years and given that it recently began airing on the Encore Suspense cable channel not long ago, I’m sure I’ll watch quite a few more. What I didn’t realize was what a formidable presence it was in its day. The show kicked off…

Death on Demand by Carolyhn Hart

The Mysteries of Mysterious Bookstores

By William I. Lengeman III

January 6, 2012

Readers of mystery fiction may or may not be the most avid fans of their particular genre but they’ve got to be high on the list. Which might go a long way toward explaining why so much mystery fiction takes place in and around bookstores, and particularly mystery bookstores. It would take someone much better…

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