The Psychedelic Send-Up Bond: The 1967 Casino Royale
Few movies have wasted as much talent as the 1967 film adaptation of Casino Royale. Let’s see, we have David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Orson Welles and …
Category: Mystery and Mayhem
Twentieth Century Geopolitics and East-West Relations in the Shadow of Dr. Fu Manchu
Rereading Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu series the past year or so (this is a rewritten 2011 post from my own blog) has been a fascinating experience. Not always the reading. …
Be he ever so divergent, there’s no place like Holmes
As I know we have some Holmes fans reading and writing posts here, I thought I’d post this week about two Holmes novels that bend the canon in different ways, …
Down these magic streets a man must go: Lovecraft, P.I.
When my DVD player/VCR died a while back, that left my VHS tapes more or less orphaned. Sure, I could get down my backup VCR and swap it out with …
Good Cop Bad Cop
Thinking about the all the scary events of the last week, and the contribution pop culture might have made to how we got here.
Two From Collins– Well, Two and A Half.
Still working on the to-read pile. Here’s three more mysteries, this time featuring Max Allan Collins.
A Stack of Hard Cases… and One Ringer
In which your humble columnist takes a look at the latest offerings from Hard Case Crime… and another novel from a licensed property that’s really a lot of fun. Cops, P.I.’s, murderers, con men, and sociopaths galore. Buckle up.