Crime fiction is becoming more global all the time, but I'll bet Israel doesn't come to mind when you think of mystery novels. Peter Rozovsky over at Detectives Beyond Borders offer up a short history of crime fiction in Israel with an article by Uri Kenan in two parts, here and here.
The Q&A roundup includes the Sons of Spade blog chatting with author Sean Dexter, author of the Jackson Burke series, and how he feels that private eyes are so popular ("It's what all men want to be: Tough, wisecracking, and fearless"); and Meg Gardiner stopped by Chuck Wendig's blog Terrible Minds to reveal why she likes writing: "Because holding people’s suspended disbelief in my hands is a beautiful, powerful kick."
Out of the Gutter and NoirCon 2012 are teaming up for Atomic Noir: Four Dark Original Stories Inspired by Post-World War II Crime Fiction. Winners get $50, a copy of the book, and get their work distributed to the biggest names and biggest fans in current crime fiction at the annual noir conference in Philadelphia. Stories should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words, and the first round of submissions is open open July 1 and close July 21.
This was the week for fun auctions: a first edition of Live and Let Die, the second James Bond book written by Ian Fleming, sold for $21,258, while an Agatha Christie novel from 1924, with a rare dust jacket that showed Poirot for the first time, sold for £40,000 ($62,000). Remarkably, the Poirot illustration looks like a double for actor David Suchet, who plays Poirot in the ITV/PBS Mystery dramatizations.
Want some summer reading material? Omnimystery News has a listing of the new crime fiction coming in July.
Janet Rudolph has a tribute to Nora Ephron, who died this week, with a short Stieg Larsson parody Ephron wrote for The New Yorker.
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