Below, Doug Allyn makes a casual reference to his fifth Edgar nomination. He neglects to mention that he has actually been nominated seven times, more than any other mystery writer in any category, and once walked home with the little porcelain bust of Poe. He arrived on the mystery scene with a bang in 1986, […]

LUCKY THIRTEEN Your Friday columnist selects his favorite mystery anthologies (part one) by Steven Steinbock We who gather at Criminal Brief are here to celebrate the mystery short story. Maybe sometime I’ll give you a tour of the various magazines – pulps, broadsheets, slicks, and digests – in which most mystery shorts first appeared. But […]