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THE WIT AND WISDOM OF BARNABY JONES
When people discuss the prestige TV crime dramas of the 1970s, they tend to mention Columbo, The Rockford Files, Kojak, The Streets of San Francisco…
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NIGHT STALKS THE MANSION
Recently, I published a piece in Quillette on the cultural phenomenon that was The Amityville Horror. In 1975, a young family – George and Kathy Lutz…
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LEW ARCHER AND THE EXCITABLE BOY
Earlier this year I read two excellent crime novels written by Newton Thornburg – To Die in California (1973) and Cutter and Bone (1976) – both of them…
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AURORA: BORING TITLE; THRILLING NOVEL
In my last post I reviewed Cold Storage, David Koepp’s campy thriller about exploding green zombies (I loved it). I mentioned in that post that I had…
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GREAT GREEN GOBS OF GREASY, GRIMY ZOMBIE GUTS
Writer David Koepp’s name is strongly associated with three better-known creative geniuses: Stephen King, Michael Crichton, and Steven Spielberg. Koepp…
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AND THE WINNER IS…THE 2023 MIMSIE AWARDS!
January is upon us, which means that, once again, it is time to look back at all the books I read in the previous year (in this case, 2023) and hand out…
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THE FLOOD AND THE FREEZER
Note: When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, I read that the two major American cities most vulnerable to flooding were New Orleans and my…
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