Released April 20, 2018 Ring! Ring! It’s The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. We discuss this excellent work and just how much is packed into this little novel. Great plotting, interesting characters, and cats! Hungry? James Cain also wrote extensively about food including a love of muskrat and midnight spaghetti. We talk …
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Released March 23, 2018 Like the looming dread in a Cornell Woolrich novel, we are back with another episode. Is Woolrich really the master of noir suspense that so many have claimed? We discuss this point while looking at the book Night Has A Thousand Eyes. We also do some reviews and Kurt talks about …
Books Reviewed in Ep 6: The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald Nobody Move by Denis Johnson Cop Hater by Ed McBain Send my Love and a Molotov Cocktail edited by Gary Phillips and Andrea Gibbons How to Steal the Mona Lisa by Taylor Bayouth Get in Touch! Join …
The Lost Episode, Episode 6: "The Real Cool Killers" is now available. In "Killers" we enter the crazy world of mid-20th century Harlem. Chester Himes’ relationship with his Harlem stories was complex, but in the end he felt he could only write them for his own people. He changed the landscape of crime fiction. A …
Here are the Five-Round Burst Reviews for Episode 8 Time to Murder and Create by Lawrence Block from Jove BooksChinatown Beat by Henry Chang from Soho PressThe Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton (RIP) from Bantam BooksHow to Write a Damn Good Mystery by James N. Frey Find …
Episode 8 is now live! Shoot the Piano Player (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by David Goodis. We both loved this dark noir tale. Plus reviews, discussion, a really stupid mystery, and a discussion of the East Vs. the West coast in crime fiction. 5 Round Burst Time to Murder and Create by Lawrence Block Chinatown Beat …
Episode 7: 5 Round Burst Reviews All solid hits! Just to Watch Them Die Edited by Joe Clifford from Gutter Books New Orleans Noir: The Classics Edited by Julie Smith from Akashic Books Noir Riot Edited by NOIRCON from Gutter Books The Fade Out by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips from Image Comics Queen of …
Happy New Year! As a New Year’s gift to all of our wonderful listeners here is Episode 7: “The Black Mask Boys” We explore a collection of stories from the genre’s most influential magazine! We also cover Blade Runner 2049, review a collection of crime fiction based on Johnny Cash songs, and discuss the short …
5 Round Burst for Episode 5: “Strangers on a Train” Books Reviewed: Queenpin by Megan Abbott Four Novellas of Fear by Cornell Woolrich Great Lakes Crime by Frederick Stonehouse Lola by Melissa Schivner Love The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay Get in Touch! Join our Goodreads Group Visit our Patreon Contact Us …
