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Fresh Meat: The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton

By Rachel Kramer Bussel

May 6, 2014

The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton, published 5th, is chronologically the 1st globetrotting adventure with forensic accountant and martial artist Ava Lee, beginning her career as she tracks a client's stolen money to Guyana (available May 6, 2014). Ava Lee is a cultured, whipsmart Chinese-Canadian lesbian forensic accountant, who looks unassuming, but has…

Daredevil written by Mark Waid, Volume 1, art by Paolo Manuel Rivera and Marcos Martin

Fresh Meat: Daredevil by Mark Waid, Volume 1

By Dave Richards

January 24, 2012

For years, crime fiction writers have used first-person narrators to describe the world around them. Hard boiled P.I.s would tell you what a seedy bar smelled like or what kind of body a suspicious dame had. But what sort of insights into the world of crime would a blind narrator provide? How would he describe…

Contraband:From Iceland to New Orleans via Chinatown?

By Crime HQ

January 18, 2012

Contraband  (trailer at the link) represents an interesting journey, and not just for smuggled currency. Arnaldur Indridason (Indriðason) co-wrote the screenplay for the award-winning movie upon which it’s based, Reykjavik-Rotterdam, a film about smuggling alcohol produced by and starring Baltasar Kormákur. To any questions you may have about Indridason as a film guy, the Icelandic…

What dark secrets lie within your tax prep paperwork

Your CPA Has Got Your Number

By Diane Kelly

October 28, 2011

It’s no secret that people consider CPAs to be hopeless nerds. After all, only a total dork with lousy social skills would want to sit at a desk all day dealing with boring numbers, right? Except numbers aren’t nearly as boring as one might think. On the contrary, numbers are, in fact, nasty little snitches.…

The veiled or widow image of Queen Victoria used on coinage as of 1893.

Holmes as Investor: The Great Game of High Finance

By Maggie Schnader

September 25, 2011

The last Sherlock Holmes’ story, “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place,” was published in April, 1927, in The Strand Magazine. But long before that, 1911 to be exact, Monsignor Ronald A. Knox presented a paper to the Gryphon Club in London entitled “Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes.” That paper was the cornerstone of…

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