Pulp Fiction

ELMORE LEONARD

Leonard writes crime novels like no one else these days. While the characters in his novels orbit around some caper or con, the magic of his books ...

THE GUMSHOE SITE

Jiro Kimura's Web site provides mystery-related news: award nominees and winners, convention reports and photos, as well as monthly updates ...

EDGAR ALLAN POE

We have psychically-tortured genius Poe to thank for creating the detective story--or, as he called it, the tale of ratiocination. "The Murders in ...

JAKOB ARJOUNI

A reviewer in a Hamburg magazine compared Jakob Arjouni to Raymond Chandler. Unfortunately, so many writers have been compared to Chandler, the ...

MAIGRET: PART 1

Inspector Maigret is, without doubt, the most popular non-English detective in the English-speaking world--and worldwide, may be second only to ...

MAIGRET: PART 2

Belgian Georges Simenon traced Maigret's career as a Parisian cop through more than 100 novels and stories. The character's popularity has expanded ...

JIM THOMPSON: PART 1

Jim Thompson's stories form a gallery of stark portraits from the hardscrabble life. The scam artists, sociopaths, cops, hobos, and migrant workers ...