Two Can Play at That (Spy) Game!
It’s not easy keeping up with Max Allan Collins’ literary production. Over the last nine months alone, that Iowa-based author has come out with Skim […]
Articles by J. Kingston Pierce
Crime Fiction: Moonflower Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
Three years ago, author-screenwriter Anthony Horowitz’s Golden Age-style whodunit, Magpie Murders, won critical applause on both sides of the Atlantic. And not without ample justification. […]
Non-Fiction: Scoundrels and Spitballers by Philippe Garnier
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the […]
Crime Fiction: Toward a Final Judgment
Every fall, I start to look back more critically at the many books I’ve read over the preceding months, with an eye toward choosing the […]
Non-Fiction: Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the […]
Non-Fiction: The Deep End by Jason Boog
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the […]
The Truth Behind Grant’s “Cat”
It was 65 years ago this week that To Catch a Thief, Alfred Hitchcock’s romantic thriller film starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, premiered in […]
Non-Fiction: No Fascist USA! by Hilary Moore
and James Tracy
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the […]
Non-Fiction: The Lie of Global Prosperity by Seth Donnelly
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the […]
Investigating Crime for the Holidays
Among the changes I made in my life during these last 12 months was to accept an invitation to join the staff of an independent […]
