Tuesday, September 22, 2020
SleuthSayers: Let's delve into some word usage issues by Barb Goffman
SleuthSayers: Let's delve into some word usage issues: English is an interesting, intricate language. No matter how much I know, there's always more to learn. Today I'm continuing an oc...
Monday, September 21, 2020
Kensington Publishing: Modifying the Hook in Cozy Mystery Writing by Debra Goldstein
Modifying the Hook in Cozy Mystery Writing by Debra Goldstein For years, I read cozy mysteries. Then, I decided to write one. I immediately realized I needed to analyze the elements found in
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Little Big Crimes Review: The Cough by Lynn Chandler Willis
Little Big Crimes: The Cough, by Lynn Chandler Willis: "The Cough," by Lynn Chandler Willis, in Writers Crushing COVID-19, edited by Lawrence Kelter, LightSpeed Books, 2020. There...
A Short Walk Down A Dark Street: Issue 122
As posted by Peter DiChellis to our SMFS list…
This week’s blog commends short mystery & crime
fiction with links to a sinister selection of reviews, releases, free reads,
and more.
Includes, free-to-read: A Treasury of
Sayers Stories comprises a dozen stories by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Also—Tricks of the trade: A three-step,
three-minute brainstorming technique to fix a scene that isn’t working.
Plus, a review of the Michael Connelly
collection Mulholland Dive: Three Stories.
And more.
A short walk down a dark street (#122). Celebrating short mystery and
crime fiction.
https://shortwalkdarkstreet.wordpress.com/2020/09/20/short-walk-122/
Best wishes,
Peter
SMFS Members Published in Mystery Readers Journal: Senior Sleuths, Volume 36, No. 3, Fall 2020
Several SMFS members are published in the recently released Mystery Readers Journal: Senior Sleuths, Volume 36, No. 3, Fall 2020. The read is available in both hardcopy or a PDF at the website. The members in this issue are:
Jim Doherty with “Just the Facts: A Cop for Three
Quarters of a Century!”
Ron Katz with “Where Age is an Edge.”
Ellen Kirschman and Terry Shames cowrote “Senior
Sleuths and Older Writers: A Conversation.”
Ang Pompano with “Senior Sleuths: Not Dead Yet!”
Rabbi Ilene Schneider with “Why My Protagonist Is a
‘Woman of a Certain Age.’”
CJ Verburg with “Edward Gorey, Detective.”
Synopsis:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
§ I
Want to Be Mrs. Pollifax When I Grow Up by Patricia Cook
§ Marlowe’s
Last Bow by Jonathan Woods
§ Supreme
Senior Sleuths by Robert J. Stern
AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
§ Difficult
Endings by John Harvey
§ Yooper
Sleuthing in the Golden Years by Deb Baker
§ Senior
Sleuths Can Be Geezers or Geezerettes by Mike Befeler
§ The
Silvering Sleuth by Baron R. Birtcher
§ Cat
Caliban and M.J. Smith by D. B. Borton
§ My
Senior Sleuth by Garry Disher
§ Observations
Lead to Older Detective Duo by Carl Brookins
§ Sixty
is the New Forty by Robert Dugoni
§ Write
the Age You Know by Kaitlyn Dunnett
§ How Quickly Does Your Detective Age? by
Martin Edwards
§ Subjected
to History’s Judgment by Daniel Friedman
§ A
Conversion with Bronson by L.C. Hayden
§ Detectives
of a Certain Age by Richard Helms
§ A
Different Kind of Sleuth by Russell Hill
§ Confronting
Golden Ageism by Helen Jacey
§ From
the Golden Girls to Jessica Fletcher: The Road to Poppy Harmon by
Lee Hollis
§ Where
Age Is an Edge by Ron Katz
§ Senior
Sleuths and Older Writers: A Conversation by Ellen Kirschman
and Terry Shames
§ Rancho
de Taos by Gay Toltl Kinman
§ White-Haired
Love by Chris Knopf
§ Who
You Calling Senior? by Vicki Lane
§ Why
I Wrote the Gladdy Books by Rita Lakin
§ “See
You Later” But Not “Goodbye” by Gayle Leeson
§ The World’s Oldest Working Cop by
Peter Lovesey
§ My
Senior Sleuths Are Still on the Case by Ed Lynskey
§ Sleuths
of a Certain Age by Annette Mahon
§ Old
Age Can Be Deadly, Unless You Are the Fog Ladies by
Susan McCormick
§ A
Senior Author Tries Sleuthing by Rosemary Mild
§ Molly
and the Inspector by Larry Mild
§ Sneaking
Into the Life of My Protagonist by Radine Trees
Nehring
§ Better than a Homicide Detective by
Richard Osman
§ Considering
Writing a Senior-Themed Cozy Mystery? I Did. Here’s What I Learned by
Carol Novis
§ Senior
Sleuths: Not Dead Yet! by Ang Pompano
§ A
Much Younger Sleuth by Cynthia Riggs
§ Murder
and Mayhem in a Modern Noir Style by M. Glenda Rosen
(aka Marcia Rosen)
§ Old
Folks Are Just Neat by Nancy Swing
§ Why
My Protagonist Is a “Woman of a Certain Age” by Ilene Schneider
§ Edward
Gorey, Detective by C J Verburg
§ Mysteries
After Sixty by Livia Washburn
COLUMNS
§ Mystery
in Retrospect: Reviews by Sandie Herron,
Lesa Holstine, L.J. Roberts, Lucinda Surber
§ In
Short: You’re Never Too Old by Marvin Lachman
§ Just
the Facts: A Cop for Three Quarters of a Century! by
Jim Doherty
§ Real
Italy Mysteries by Cathy Pickens
§ Crime
Seen: Miss Marple and Beyond by Kate Derie
§ POV:
The First Hundred Years Are the Hardest by Rita Lakin
§ From
the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph
Saturday, September 19, 2020
SleuthSayers: Who Are Those Short People? by John Floyd
SleuthSayers: Who Are Those Short People?: A few weeks ago I did a column here about obscure movies . The point was, all of us have seen good movies that everybody knows about, but th...
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