![]() I read Eleanor Catton’s 2013 yarn, The Luminaries, back when I was still serving as a judge for New Zealand’s Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel.To acquire your own copy of this issue, click here. But its pages also offer Michael Mallory’s retrospective on “Grand Dame Guignol” films Lawrence Block’s “interview” with his burglar protagonist, Bernie Rhodenbarr Joseph Goodrich’s feature on author-screenwriter Barry Gifford Craig Sisterson’s look at Val McDermid’s storied writing career and Ben Boulden’s introduction to four private-eye series set in small U.S. Cogdill, of the intriguing Ivy Pochoda, author of the new novel These Women. Chief among this issue’s contents, of course, is the fine cover profile, by Oline H. Blame it on the pandemic and the confusion it has caused, even in the traditionally relaxed and sumptuous Rap Sheet offices. Which reminds me, I forgot to remark on the Summer 2020 edition of Mystery Scene.If you don’t already subscribe to MRJ, click here to purchase a copy of either this issue or previous editions. The Summer 2020 edition of Mystery Readers Journal is devoted to Italian mysteries.Just the sort of garb every Columbo fan needs!. ![]() The Web site’s unidentified author promises that Part 5 (60-51) will appear on Sunday. The most recent choices include the fabulous “gotcha” finale from Season 4’s “An Exercise in Fatality,” guest-starring Robert Conrad the opening murder scene from “Suitable for Framing,” a Season 1 entry featuring Conrad’s Wild Wild West co-star, Ross Martin and a demonstration of brotherly love … er, rather brotherly hate, from one of my all-time-favorite episodes, Season 3’s “Any Old Port in a Storm,” showcasing Donald Pleasence as a wine-making murderer. Yet the project is only a week old, and already four series installments have been posted: Part 1 (100-91), Part 2 (90-81), Part 3 (80-71), and Part 4 (70-61).
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