In Hannibal's 3.10, it's getting late, but Tooth Fairies are night owls, and Francis Dolarhyde (Richard Armitage) takes his pedo-van to Maryland on a pilgrimage to Hannibal's old, plastic-shrouded office. Within, he jumps wires in the telephony before unwrapping and starting up Hannibal's old computer, perhaps surprisingly, not claimed by law enforcement as a part…
Strychnine, cyanide, arsenic… As a crime fiction devotee, you know all about poisons. Or do you? The Power of Poison, a new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City might just teach you a thing or two about toxic substances and it could unravel a few mysteries as well. Was…
An excerpt of Devil's Night, the third book in the Police Chief Kat Campbell detective mystery series by Todd Ritter (available August 20, 2013). Two things Perry Hollow Police Chief Kat Campbell never thought she would do again: Enter a burning building, and lay eyes on Henry Goll, the man who was trapped inside with her the…
Vincent van Gogh is not a guy you’d normally associate with giggles, but his “Head of a skeleton with a burning cigarette” is an exception. He painted the skull realistically and without irony as an anatomy study. Then he added the ciggie for a laugh. (Not, we presume, to depict the perils of smoking. Although…
“95 percent of all antiquities in the U.S. have been smuggled.” —John Cooney, former curator of ancient art, Cleveland Museum of Art Our story begins with a pot and a pig. In 1970, an Italian man working on a canal near Naples discovered a remarkable piece of crockery: a 27-inch-tall, double-handled chalice or krater, black…
A Room Full of Bones, a mystery featuring a forensic anthropologist, is the fourth novel in the Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths (available July 3, 2012). When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop, she finds the museum’s curator lying dead on the floor.…
Prolific author, historian, and MWA Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters, aka Barbara Michaels and also nonfiction’s Barbara Mertz, knows how to create a popular series. Her most famous is the one featuring 19th-century amateur Egyptologist and archaeologist Amelia Peabody, which later involves her husband, Emerson, and even her grown children’s adventures. Are fans simply desperate for another…
It’s been 50 years since Sean Connery sauntered onto the screen as James Bond in Dr. No, and for 50 years we’ve been captivated by the way Bond gets around. The sauntering remains spectacular, but it’s the planes, the boats, and the hot, hot motors that have come to define a Bond film more memorably…
Originally built in 1906, this brick building in Ashburn, Georgia was used as a prison until 1993. The sheriff lived with his family on the ground floor with prisoners upstairs, leading to penal hijinks as reported by Roadside America: “The sheriff had been up several times and told the unruly prisoners, ’You have got…
Don’t you sometimes wonder what Las Vegas would be like if the original folks who showed up here were French or German, or maybe even Dutch? An Amish Sin City, now there’s a visual… I live here and not a day goes by that I don’t give that question a passing thought. Pointless, I know.…
