BOOKS THAT STAYED WITH ME by Melodie Johnson Howe I was thinking about the books I chose for John’s column and why I chose them. These books are like people from my past who have touched me, helped me, made me cry, made me see things differently. They opened up worlds that in my youth […]

IN THE GAME by James Lincoln Warren Last month, my wife Margaret surprised me by suggesting that we buy a video game console. The stimulus for this was something she’d read on facebook by Gregory Han, my niece Emily’s boyfriend here in L.A., about a new video game called “L.A. Noire” [sic] and his link […]

TOM SAWYER and the DIABOLUS EX MACHINA by Leigh Lundin Earlier this week, Melodie linked Mark Twain and technology of the Kindle. Rob added that Samuel Clemens went bankrupt backing a new a new typesetter and Leigh mentioned Twain published the first novel written on a typewriter. Steve ironically followed with an article about how […]

BOOKLIST by John M. Floyd A mystery-writer friend asked me a tough question last week. It wasn’t about style or marketing or any of the other things this lady and I usually discuss; this was about my preferences as a reader. She asked me if I could name my all-time favorite novels. (Why doesn’t anybody […]

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 […]

Yesterday David Dean, mystery writer and police chief, gave us a short course on hand guns; specifically the revolver. Today we go semi-automatic . . . WRITE TO BEAR ARMS-Part II by David Dean Colt M1911A1 .45 semi-automatic pistol with magazine, showing .45 ACP and 9mm parabellum cartidges for comparison Now to those semi-automatics, also […]

Today and tomorrow, our regularly scheduled columns are being pre-empted by special programming. Over to you in the studio, Rob! —JLW David Dean is an excellent writer of mystery stories, but don’t take my word for it. Read “Tomorrow’s Dead” in the current (July) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. David also happens to be a police […]