News on Mystery Novels

TV weatherman Roker writes murder mystery

2010-02-24T01:13:51Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - America's best known weatherman Al Roker, who is already a top-selling author, changes gears with "The Morning Show Murders", a mystery thriller set in his world of network breakfast television.</p><p>The 320-page crime novel, which is r...

David Rosenfelt Photo Session

2009-10-21T13:01:11Z

SANTA ANA, CA - OCTOBER 20: Mystery writer David Rosenfelt with his dogs at his home on October 20, 2009 in Santa Ana, California. (Photo by Robert Benson/Getty Images)

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'Devil's Garden' is a remarkable book

2010-03-02T16:24:18Z

<div><p>"Devil's Garden" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 354 pages, $25.95), by Ace Atkins: America, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle once said, "elevates a man more quickly than any nation in the world, and casts him down more quickly ...

European Crime Fiction Star Award - Mankell

2009-03-19T10:40:48Z

Swedish writer Henning Mankell smiles during a press conference in Unna, Germany, 02 March 2009. Mankell is the first laureate of the European Crime Fiction Star Award. Photo: David Ebener

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Prolific mystery writer Donald Westlake dead at 75

2009-03-24T23:43:54Z

<div id="subtitle">Prolific mystery writer Donald Westlake, author of more than 100 books, dead at 75</div><div><p>Donald Westlake, a prolific author considered one of the most successful and versatile mystery writers in the United States, has died. He was 75.</p><p>Westlake collapsed from an apparent heart attack as he headed to New Year's E...

Hillary Waugh, prolific mystery writer, dies at 88

2010-02-28T22:45:15Z

<div id="subtitle">Hillary Waugh, prolific mystery writer, dies at 88 in Connecticut after brief illness</div><div><p>Novelist Hillary Waugh, whose prolific career introduced generations of mystery readers to small-town intrigue and police techniques rooted in...

The rewards of crime

2010-03-02T05:15:04Z

<div><p> Raymond Chandler once praised Dashiell Hammett for having given murder back to the sort of people who committed it. One knows what he meant; away with murders at the vicarage or on the Orient Express (where, however, a good few have doubtless taken place). Yet it wasn't really a very intelligent observation because all sorts of peopl...

Now the truth can be told:Mr Cameron is the hair to Blair

2010-03-02T07:16:59Z

<div><p> Important politicians are no longer content just to deliver their speeches. They or their spinners privately make known to lobby correspondents in advance the message which the impending speech will send to voters.</p><p> But the advance spin is not always the same as the delivered speech. The spin, however, is what the politician really wants voters to notice. Thus today the pre-spin has become more significant than the speech.&am...

The pleasure of guessing wrong

2010-03-02T08:28:45Z

<div><p> THE LIGHTHOUSE by P. D. James Faber, <p> The closed-circle Agatha Christieian detective story has rather fallen out of fashion in favour of the 'crime novel', the essential difference being that while every detective story is a crime novel the reverse is not necessarily the case. As the doyenne of the detective story P. D. Jam...

Manager: 'Fletch' author Gregory Mcdonald dies

2010-02-28T14:04:34Z

<div id="subtitle">Manager: Mystery writer Gregory Mcdonald, author of 'Fletch' novels, dies at age 71</div><div><p>Gregory Mcdonald, whose best-selling "Fletch" mystery books also were made into films, has died, according to his manager. He was 71.</p><p>Mcdonald died Sunday at his antebellum farm in Pulaski,