The next Noir at the Bar event will take place in Staten Island this Sunday, with authors Rob Hart (New Yorked), Josh Bazell (Beat the Reaper), Todd Robinson (The Hard Bounce), Eddie Joyce (Small Mercies), Terrence McCauley (Sympathy for the Devil), and Hilary Davidson (Blood Always Tells) on hand for readings and signings.
Via the Bang2Write blog, one lucky person will win 10 British crime fiction novels in honor of BritCrime’s first free online crime fiction fest in July. The deadline for entering is before midnight July 10.
The New York Times reported on the mostly-forgotten story of Samuel J. Battle, the first black officer in the New York Police Department, a story brought to the attention first of poet Langston Hughes and later reporter Arthur Browne. One rather poignant part of the article still relevant via contemporary headlines, is that Battle was the son of former slaves from North Carolina who entered the department in 1911 "following intense lobbying by Harlem’s elite ministers and newspaper editors, who saw integration as a remedy for police violence against blacks."
The Bookseller's Stuart Bache took note of "The Resurgence of Golden Age Crime." From The British Library’s Crime Classics, Orion’s e-only The Murder Room imprint to HarperCollins’ revival of the Collins Crime Club, it shows the readership for the golden age detective novel is as hungry as ever for crime that stands the test of time.
Writing for Kirkus Reviews, J. Kingston Pierce tried to answer one reader's complaint about the "drunken and damaged protagonists" in detective fiction with a recap of authors and crime series that prove there's quite a variety of sleuths being written today.
Author Don Winslow (Cartel) offered up a list of "6 great books that explore the inner lives of cops."
The Books Live: Crime Beat blog posted a link to an essay by University of Pretoria academic Elizabeth le Roux, titled "South African Crime and Detective Fiction in English: A Bibliography and Publishing History." The essay focuses on crime fiction titles published up to 1994, concentrating on the period before June Drummond and James McClure, including a goodly number of South African crime novels prior to the 1950s.
The BBC blog discussed the letters revealing Arthur Conan Doyle's involvement in the 110-year-old mystery of a horse mutilation that are going on display in Portsmouth.
The latest issue of Suspense Magazine has an an excerpt from new books by Ingrid Thoft and Nelson DeMille; the latest forensics notes from D.P. Lyle; interviews with CJ Box, Patrick Kendrick, and Nelson DeMille; Q&As with debut authors Christine Carbo, Neal Griffin, and Simon Gervais; and the latest book notes and reviews.
Scientific American reported on the use of stingray technology by local and state law enforcement agencies, setting up fake cell towers to gather mobile data without a court order. Allegedly, agencies like the Baltimore PD used a cell site simulator thousands of times and signed a nondisclosure agreement with the FBI instructing prosecutors to drop cases rather than reveal the department’s use of the stingray.
Forensic scientists at Austria's University of Salzburg have developed a new method for establishing an exact time of death after as long as 10 days by evaluating the breakdown of protein building blocks of muscle.
Think you know your detective fiction? Guardian Books has a quiz on detective duos for you.
The new crime poem at the 5-2 is "Scholastic Musical Chairs" by David S. Pointer, and there's also a new noir poem, "Sick in the Head" by David Barber at Beat to a Pulp.
In the Q&A roundup, Patti Abbott chats with the Mystery People about her debut novel, Concrete Angel; the MP also invited Brad Parks to talk about his latest mystery to feature Newark, NJ reporter Carter Ross; The Seattle Times discussed the "real life horrors" in Don Winslow's new drug trafficking novel, Cartel; and Omnimystery News welcomed Channing Whitaker to talk about his new book, Until the Sun Rises.
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