For a user acclimated to scrolls, a new format in file storage can seem complicated at first. Watch the Medieval Tech Support hero patiently take his client through all the operational features of the . . . beek, we think they call it. The subtitling in translation is still a little shaky, but we’re nonetheless…
In a lively market town in Warwickshire during the 1570’s, a leather merchant and glovemaker, formerly very prosperous, was edging toward financial ruin. The courts prosecuted him–or perhaps only threatened to–for illegally trading in large quantities of wool and for usury, money-lending. By 1576 he had to forfeit his public office. There is almost no…
We’ve all seen this one, or read it. Detective assigned to the case visits the crime scene after forensics and photographers and search teams have conducted their examination of the location. He wanders around soaking up the atmosphere and getting his head around the evidence. Then something catches his eye. A glint or a twinkle…
Trends may come and trends may go (though I’ve got a case of Pet Rocks stashed in the basement for when they make a comeback). One recent publishing trend that may have already seen its heyday come and go is the so-called mashup novel.The first of these, apparently, was the rather popular Pride and Prejudice…
I’ve done it again. Ruined another good television show because I can’t get beyond the medical premise. I stopped watching The Good Wife (too heavy) to tune into Medical Examiner Light, also known as Body of Proof. I consider the show the same way I do a Moliere play: get past the absurd premise and…
From the website at Adult Swim, “NTSF:SD:SUV::, also known as the National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle::, is a clandestine team of government agents working together to protect San Diego from numerous terrorist threats coming in daily from such evil countries as Mexico, Canada, Guam and more. This team of highly trained…
Yet another, um, niche cozy offering you may have missed? A Stick In The Mud (A Cowboy Proctologist Mystery) By Buck Masterson As a retired cowboy who finally has time to indulge his lifelong interest in amateur proctology, you could safely say that Gert Minkslapper’s been in more than a few rugged canyons in his…
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present… Murder at the Royal Wedding. One can almost feel the papillae on one’s tongue shrivel under the utter blandness. The plot? A deranged maniac obsessed with the late Princess Diana of Wales plans to kill Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall at Will and Kate’s Royal Wedding. The protagonists? A disgraced royal…
I just finished reading The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin—not a cozy, but a historical mystery (which is just as good in my opinion) set in nineteenth-century Russia. It’s the first in a series of a dozen or so mysteries featuring the young police investigator Erast Petrovich Fandorin, five of which have been translated into…
It could only happen in Florida. A man walked into a local bank and gave the teller a note demanding $30,000. She gave him the money, but as he ran down the street with it, the dye bomb attached to it exploded and left him red-handed. Literally. But the $30,000 must have made him feel…
