SCANDAL SHEETS by Leigh Lundin   The Case of the Purloined Prose   First there was the Cassie Edwards incident. Cassie Edwards, highly regarded romance writer, has sold more than ten million copies of her 100 novels in 25 years. She’s been honored with Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award, the Reviewer’s Choice Award, and named […]

EVILUTION by Leigh Lundin Last weekend, friends Steve and Sharon invited me to the movies. Steve suggested Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, saying he’d heard good things about it. I opened the reviews and was surprised that 91% of professional critics– 30 out of 33– gave it thumbs down, only a little less than the average ‘man […]

HARRY POTTER and the GOLDEN COW by Leigh Lundin UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ : WARNER BROS. ENTERNTAINMENT INC. : and J.K. ROWLING, : Case No. 07 Plaintiffs, : Civ. 9667 : (RPP) -against – : : RDR BOOKS and DOES 1-10, : Defendants : : –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ Defendant RDR Books […]

115 and COUNTING by Leigh Lundin I grew up in Shelby County, Indiana. It’s a land of covered bridges, county fairs, tractor pulls, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, soapbox derbies, and pioneer stories. When I was a kid, people didn’t lock their doors, really. They didn’t lock up their daughters either, which was a wonderful […]

1 CHANCE by Leigh Lundin Cardiff I don’t care if you hate hip-hop; I don’t care if you hate opera. Hang in here with me and follow two great stories with overlapping themes, because you’ll enjoy this. Several months ago, my friend Diane Mordas and my brother Glen both sent me a YouTube.com link of […]

AMAZON MUSCLE by Leigh Lundin Susan Slater Author Susan Slater has written a raft of books, including at least two mystery series I’m aware of, the Ben Pecos and the Dan Mahoney mysteries. Her web site is well worth viewing for another reason, because it is one of the rare good uses of Shockwave Flash […]

FORENSIC ERRORS by Leigh Lundin If you’ve ever wondered if I buy books mentioned in my column, I do– within the past two weeks, I picked up a dozen mentioned in Criminal Brief plus two forensics books. I was disappointed in both of the latter, so when I saw Doug Lyle had a new forensics […]