YOUR CHOICE by Steven Steinbock She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed (who paradoxically refers to herself on this forum as Steve’s Wench) stared at the stack of old review books on the kitchen counter. It had gotten so high that in a process of literary mitosis had become two stacks before her very eyes. “Hon,” she said. (That’s “hon” which […]
TYPING WITH NINE DIGITS by Steven Steinbock Let’s get the preliminaries out of the way. I broke my hand. It happened a week ago, a result of a slippery shower floor, a clumsy reach for a fallen bar of soap, and a hard marble ledge. I cursed myself, and after I’d dried off and dressed, […]
SCAN THIS PAGE by Steven Steinbock Earlier this week , Melodie shared with us the experience of her bold leap forward into the twenty-first century with a Kindle. I don’t own an e-reader. I probably will at some point. For now I like my books the old fashioned way. There are some huge advantages of […]
JABBER-WALKING PART TWO by Steven Steinbock When we left off last week, I had left off my narrative with James Lincoln Warren and myself at Penn Station boarding the Express train Washington, DC. It was Friday, April 29. I feel a little like a character from a Mark Twain adventure – Innocents Abroad or Roughing […]
JABBER-WALKING by Steven Steinbock He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought – So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! […]
DRIED FRUIT by Steven Steinbock It’s a frabjous Friday, and today your beamish correspondent is in the company of James Lincoln Warren, traveling by train from New York’s Penn Station to Washington’s Union Station. Last night members of the Mystery Writers of America gathered in the Grand Hyatt Ballroom above Grand Central Station for the […]
ED’S WORLDS by Steven Steinbock I think it’s fair to say that Edward D. Hoch was best known for his tradition mystery stories. The stories about Dr. Sam Hawthorn are all impossible crime “problems.” Most of his other series characters also dealt with impossible crimes or paradoxical situations. Nick Velvet was cast from the mold […]