Rough Edges

For Bill Pronzini/Marcia Muller day, I wanted to write about something a little different, so I wound up reading two novellas written by ...

When Joe Lansdale mentioned on Facebook that an e-book edition of this collection was available, I knew I had to get it. My copy of the o...

Here's another of my Markham stories from the early days of writing for MSMM. At more than 15,000 words, "War Games" is the lo...

Retired cowboy movie star Eliot "Lucky" Tremaine has a problem: he's being blackmailed. Markham seems to be the only one...

< Back in the prehistoric days of my career, I wrote several stories about a private detective named Markham. "The Man in the Moon...

I think I can fudge enough to call a digest magazine a book. It's approximately 50,000 words of fiction, after all. And while I wa...

I heard the sad news today that writer and editor Charles E. Fritch passed away back in October. His obituary is here . Chuck was the assist...

Over on his blog today, Win Scott Eckert mentions three Mike Shayne stories that I wrote for MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE: "Black L...

Over at Bookgasm , Bruce Grossman's always entertaining column "Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs" takes a look at three...

I almost let this anniversary slip by, but then it occurred to me that thirty years ago this month, you could go down to your friendly neigh...

My post the other day about the Markham stories has prompted several people to ask me about my other private eye stories, so I got my record...

Yesterday on his blog Ed Gorman had some nice things to say concerning a story I wrote, oh, about a thousand years ago. It feels that lon...