Our Christmas Contest continues—check it out here. SHORT CRIME STORIES FOR THE SEASON mostly by Rob Lopresti After the Christmas Party Your drinking was out of proportion; Your dance was a crazy contortion. Attached are some pix Of your zaniest tricks. We wish you a merry extortion! Woe Woe Woe The fat man who dresses […]
New Jersey police chief and Shamus-nominated EQMM author David Dean returns with the second of two columns ruminating on cops, fiction, and cops & fiction. You can read Part 1 here. SAINT MICHAEL AND FRIENDS – PART 2 by David Dean In my experience, the average police officer is not big on reading. Beyond a […]
Today and next Tuesday we are treated to a two-part essay by David Dean. David’s short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, as well as a number of anthologies, since 1990. His story “Trial by Fir”’ was nominated for a Shamus Award in 1995, and “Ibrahim’s Eyes” won the EQMM Readers Award for […]
Back in August we included a chapter from The Man In Court by Frederic DeWitt Wells (which I shamefully described as A Man In Court … Bad Librarian!) Wells was a New York City magistrate in the early years of the century. Most of the book is not too interesting today because it is more […]
OOPS by James Lincoln Warren Alas, for the very first time in three years, I don’t have a Tuesday offering for you, O Gentle Reader—I thought I’d be able to drum something up, but reality impinged and I found myself without time to do the search justice. I will get right on it early Tuesday […]
As far as I know, Jeff Baker still lives and writes in Wichita, Kansas, just as he did last week. —JLW ROBERT ARTHUR: MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER by Jeff Baker His output was some 200 published stories of mystery, science fiction and fantasy. His admirers have included Anthony Boucher, Isaac Asimov and Joe R. Lansdale. An early […]
I am pleased beyond words to offer the following, the first unsolicited fan contribution to Criminal Brief, something I first invited way back in May of this year. It is only fitting that the inaugural column should be written by our faithful and constant friend, Jeff Baker, who offers the following as his biographical blurb: […]