MWA announces 2015 Edgar nominees By Jeremy Lynch on Jan 22, 2015 in Awards Mystery Writers of America have announced the Nominees for the 2015 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2014. BEST NOVEL This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash (HarperCollins Publishers […]
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Ausma Zehanat Khan’s ‘Unquiet Dead’ rises above mystery setting By Paula L. Woods January 9, 2015 While publishers may rave about mysteries that “transcend the genre,” few soar beyond their crime-solving objectives. And to find such a treasure in a first-time effort is rarer still. Khan has brought every ounce of her intellect and professional […]
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By CHARLES FINCHJAN. 9, 2015 FOUR NOVELS OF THE 1970S By Elmore Leonard Library of America, $35. Is Elmore Leonard a great American novelist? His advocates certainly think so, and now, in a volume edited by his longtime researcher Gregg Sutter, he has the imprimatur of the Library of America, with the full accompanying paraphernalia: […]
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Link: Exhibition Detail: Light & Noir: Exiles and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950 | Skirball Cultural Center. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION You love their movies. Now discover their stories. The exhibition Light & Noir: Exiles and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950 explores how the experiences of German-speaking exiles and émigrés who fled Nazi Europe—many of them Jews—influenced the classic […]
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Story by DANIEL MILLER Illustrations by MORGAN SCHWEITZER Photography by GINA FERAZZI NOVEMBER 1, 2014, LA Times http://graphics.latimes.com/finding-marlowe/?=hpt It was hot and I was late for lunch. I was feeling mean, like I’d been left out in the sun too long. We were meeting at a joint on La Brea, the kind of place where […]
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