Private Eyes Who Just Won't Stay Dead (Even If Their Creators Are) "No question about it. Once you die, you really start losing control of things." --Mike Hammer in Murder, My Love (2019), by Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins That whirring sound coming from the mystery section of the local cemetery these days? It … Continue reading Death is Not the End (The Long, Long Goodbye)
Tag: Continuation Literature
Hercule Poirot
Created by Agatha Christie (1890-1976) “I do not approve of murder.” — oh? "My name is Hercule Poirot. I am probably the greatest detective in the world." — modest bastard, isn't he? Yes, yes, yes, HERCULE POIROT was so a private detective. No, he was not hard-boiled. He wasn't some rye-guzzling brute in a trenchcoat … Continue reading Hercule Poirot
Lisbeth Salander Returns to Comics!
The Girl in the Spider’s Web, based on David Lagercrantz’s continuation of the Larsson novel trilogy, is coming out in November. But why wait? This August, our pals at Hard Case Crime, in conjunction with Titan Comics, will give us a whole new Lisbeth Salander adventure, featuring everybody's favorite woke psycho. when they unleash The Girl Who … Continue reading Lisbeth Salander Returns to Comics!
Lisbeth Salander & Mikael Blomkvist
Created by Stieg Larsson (1954-2004) "People always have secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are." -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Renegade computer hackerLISBETH SALANDER and journalist MIKAEL BLOMKVIST are the mismatched detective duo who appear in a series of internationally acclaimed, posthumously published thrillers by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. … Continue reading Lisbeth Salander & Mikael Blomkvist
Everybody Loves Raymond
Chandler, that is. This month (July 2018), for no apparent reason beyond, perhaps, marking his 130 birthday today (July 23), two new books are being published. One, The Annotated Big Sleep (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $25.00), celebrates the past, placing the 1939 novel (which introduced us to Los Angles private eye Philip Marlowe) on a pedestal, and … Continue reading Everybody Loves Raymond
Philip Marlowe
Created by Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) “If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.” — Playback "Dead men are heavier than broken hearts." — The Big Sleep “It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a … Continue reading Philip Marlowe