My wife Ellen’s maiden name is Highsmith. And yes, she’s related. Which was the entire flimsy reason that I decided to read each of Aunt Pat’s five Tom Ripley thrillers. That and my love of all things Alfred Hitchcock—especially Strangers on a Train, the movie Hitch made from Patricia Highsmith’s first published novel. If you’ve…
As most cops will attest, your typical criminal is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. According to an oft-quoted statistic, criminals possess, on average, an IQ of 8 to 10 points lower than law-abiding citizens. Naturally, one has to be wary of drawing a correlation between intelligence and illicit behavior. There are an astronomical…
With the recently release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, we are once again thrust into the world of magic and wizardry. But, just because this story takes place in a fantasy world, that doesn’t mean there isn’t any crime! In the rich and colorful world of the Harry Potter universe, there are villains…
