Another library podcast with mystery short stories.

William Faulkner by Carl Van Vechten.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Div

The Elmhurst (IL) Public Library offers the Storytime for Grown-Ups podcast. The following mystery-related stories have been read on the podcast:

• "Wasps' Nest" by Agatha Christie
  
• "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl (Edgar winner, Best Short Story)
  
• "Poison" by Roald Dahl
  
• "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
  
• "Wikipedia Brown" by B. J. Novak
• "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
  
• "Here Lies Another Blackmailer" by Bill Pronzini
• "The Hangman" by Ian Rankin
  

Exhibition: SF in crime fiction.

The exhibition "Bullets across the Bay: The San Francisco Bay Area in Crime Fiction" at UC Berkeley's Doe Library is on display until February 29, 2012, including authors such as Anthony Boucher, Dashiell Hammett, John D. MacDonald, Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini, and Julie Smith. Article about the exhibition here.

William Cole's "Waiting for Rusty" (1939) on Selected Shorts.

The radio program Selected Shorts features William Cole's Black Mask story "Waiting for Rusty" (1939; repr. Hard-Boiled, ed. Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian, New York: Oxford UP, 1995), read by Ted Marcoux.

Happy birthday, Bill Pronzini.

Erle Stanley Gardner's
Exploits of the Patent
Leather Kid, ed.
Bill Pronzini (2011).
Crippen and Landru

Turning 68 today is Bill Pronzini—MWA Grand Master, Shamus winner, and creator of the Nameless Detective, which are just a few of the items on his long resume.

Happy birthday, Bill Pronzini.

MWA Grand Master, Shamus winner, and Nameless Detective creator Bill Pronzini was born today in Petaluma, CA, in 1943.

About the image: Spadework, a collection of Nameless Detective stories published by Crippen & Landru.

Neglected Books looks at Elliott Chaze's Wettermark (1969).

The Neglected Books blog discusses Wettermark (1969) by journalist Elliott Chaze (1915–90), mentioning the admiration of Bill Pronzini and Ed Gorman for this exploration of an impending bank heist. Ed has mentioned with particular favor Chaze's Black Wings Has My Angel (1953), now back in print.