Monday, June 15, 2026

My July-Aug 2026 EQMM column.


My new Jury Box column w/reviews of mystery short story collections and classic reprints is now posted at Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, featuring works that focus on the impossible crime (Elsa Barker, Christianna Brand, Charles Chadwick, Mary Collins, Celia Fremlin, Peter Lovesey, T.S. Stribling).

Monday, June 08, 2026

New film music releases: Fried, Rozsa.

New music releases include:

 The Grissom Gang (1971; composer Gerald Fried). Dragon's Domain Records. For more information or to hear some clips, go here.

• The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977) and Background to Violence suite (composer Miklós Rózsa); the suite includes selections from The Naked CityThe Killers, and Brute Force). Citadel Records. For more information or to hear some clips, go here.


 

 

Monday, June 01, 2026

Return to Reichenbach Falls.

"The Death of Sherlock Holmes"
by Sidney Paget. 1893.
Members of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London recently re-created the fateful encounter between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls.