LAST WORDS by Leigh Lundin I was mulling over notes and web addresses for today’s column when I realized I could juxtapose a couple of early ideas, both related to the last words of condemned prisoners. The result is an article that affects different people in different ways. Texas Hold’em The Texas Department of Criminal […]

FLORIDA NEWS by Leigh Lundin Florida’s leading gubernatorial candidate is a handsome probable billionaire named Rick Scott who … wait for it… if commie conservative liberal libertarian leftist pinko court documents are to be believed, engineered not only the largest Medicare fraud ever, but the largest fraud in our proud Florida history, a state that […]

Friday night, I got a phone call from Leigh telling me that his computer had self-destructed and that he didn’t think he’d be able to repair it or obtain a new one in time for his column today. Now, one of the things about Star Trek that always bothered me was that silly self-destruct sequence […]

EROTIC MYSTERY THRILLERS by Leigh Lundin I found myself in a conversation with friends about erotic mystery thrillers. As we chatted, I realized we had the makings for another John Floyd Movie List™, including several nominated for Edgar Allan Poe awards, the Edgar. Not a lot of introduction is necessary. Perhaps because of our American […]

STAMPING out CRIME by Leigh Lundin Swedish Crime Academy key                 (artist: H. Lauritzen) 1. Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers)  2. Jane Marple (Agatha Christie)   3. Gideon Fell (John Dickson Carr)    4. Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)     5. Jules Maigret (Georges Simenon)      6. Auguste Dupin (Edgar Allan Poe)       7. Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)        8. […]

AUGUST DERLETH and SOLAR PONS by Leigh Lundin Why isn’t the great detective Solar Pons better known? Pons strikes me as the friend you loved in school but were afraid to like too much lest your own popularity suffer. After all, what could Derleth, a North American Midwesterner who’d never been to England know about […]

4th of July by Leigh Lundin The rockets red glare… The bombs bursting in air… What a tempting backdrop for a crime story! As I started a very different column for today, my mind switched to another track: I realized I couldn’t identify a single Fourth of July mystery story, not one. I could think […]