My Bookshelf The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2025Editor: Matt CoyleSeries Editor: Michael Bracken In the tradition of The Best American Mystery and Suspense and The Best Mystery Stories of the Year, The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2025 hopes to honour—what else?—the best private eye short stories published in 2024. Okay, the inaugural edition … Continue reading My Bookshelf: Best Private Eye Stories Of The Year 2025
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My Bookshelf: “The Great American Detective”
My Bookshelf The Great American Detective: 15 Stories Starring America's Celebrated Private Eyes Edited by William Kittridedge & Steven M. Krauzer Possibly the very first anthology of crime fiction I ever bought, probably at the downtown Coles or Classics on my long way home from Dawson in the East End to the South Shore. Reading … Continue reading My Bookshelf: “The Great American Detective”
My Bookshelf: One Night with Nora Blonde Ale
My Bookshelf One Night with Nora Blonde Ale Pulp Fiction You Can Drink? I shit thee not. I was bookhunting in Pasadena one fine sunny afternoon when, seeking shelter from all that damn sunshine, I stumbled across this local brew on the menu at some prefab watering hole on Colorado, just down the street from … Continue reading My Bookshelf: One Night with Nora Blonde Ale
My Bookshelf: “The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery”
My Bookshelf The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Volumes One and Two Edited by Russ Kick Created and curated by activist, journalist, writer, editor, muckraker and comics buff Russ Kick, this ambitious anthology series by Seven Stories Press which kicked off in 2017 with The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery, Volume One: From Sherlock Holmes … Continue reading My Bookshelf: “The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery”
My Bookshelf: Noir: A Crime Comics Collection
My Bookshelf Noir: A Crime Comics Collection One of the few collections of crime comics ever released, 2009's Noir: A Crime Comics Collection must have caused at least some ripples because, despite being black & white and the skimpiness of original paperback edition's size, it was brought it back in a full comics-size hardcover version in … Continue reading My Bookshelf: Noir: A Crime Comics Collection
My Bookshelf: Private Eye Action As You Like It… by Joe R. Lansdale & Lewis Shiner
My Bookshelf Private Eye Action As You Like It... by Joe R. Lansdale & Lewis Shiner I'm not even sure how I ended up with this, but I know I'm glad I did. I might have ordered it, dirt cheap, from AbeBooks or maybe Amazon.ca, after falling in love with Lansdale's Hap and Leonard. Or … Continue reading My Bookshelf: Private Eye Action As You Like It… by Joe R. Lansdale & Lewis Shiner
Murder in the Library (Index)
What's on your bookshelf? COLLECTIONS & ANTHOLOGIES The Best Anthologies of Original P.I. Stories The Best Anthologies of Hard-Boiled, Noir & Pulp Reprints Crime Comic Anthologies Other Mystery Anthologies Worth Hunting For The Mystery Writers of America Anthologies The Akashic Noir Series The Best American Mystery Stories/The Best American Mystery & Suspense The Mysterious Bookshop … Continue reading Murder in the Library (Index)
My Bookshelf (Index)
A Salute to Some of the Books I Loved (or Lusted After) The Pulps: Fifty Years of American Pop Culture Edited by Toby Goodstone The Great American Detective Edited by William Kittridedge & Steven M. Krauzer One Night with Nora Blonde Ale Well, the empties are on my shelf... The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery Volumes … Continue reading My Bookshelf (Index)
My Bookshelf: Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds, edited by Anthony Boucher
My Bookshelf Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds, edited and with introductions by Anthony Boucher This early anthology (1950) from the Mystery Writers of America may have seemed to be just the usual grab bag of stories from all across the genre, and indeed the cover of the original hard cover edition promised short stories "of fictional detectives... … Continue reading My Bookshelf: Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds, edited by Anthony Boucher
They Also Served: Joseph “Cap” Shaw
EDITOR OF BLACK MASK (1926-36) "Shaw was the finest coachwhip I ever met in an editor's chair. In my thirty-five years of freelance fiction, no one stands out so." -- Lester Dent, in a letter to Philip Durham "We wrote better for him than we could have written for anybody else." -- Raymond Chandler, in … Continue reading They Also Served: Joseph “Cap” Shaw