“Touched in equal parts with genius and sin…”

Ethan Iverson, when he’s not playing the piano, is apt to be reading crime fiction—and writing eloquently and incisively about it. (His new survey of Rex Stout’s body of work is remarkable.) Here’s what he’s now posted: “One of the new...

Thomas Pluck on DEAD GIRL BLUES

This review appeared today in Criminal Element, and it’s just too good to keep to myself… “Lawrence Block has been writing for over sixty years, and he’s written everything from parlor mysteries solved by an affable burglar to the hardest of...