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Pro-File: Ray Garton; Noir Short

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Pro-File: Ray Garton


1. Tell us about your current novel (or project).

My novel Scissors was just released in paperback. It's about a man named Stuart Mullond who, as an adult, is still trying to recover from an abusive, repressive childhood. As a boy, he endured a very unpleasant medical procedure that was supposed to be done during surgery under anesthesia when he had a hernia repaired. But the doctor, a urologist named Dr. Ferguson, forgot to do it and the procedure was performed in the ...

Pro-File Christopher Fowler

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Christopher Fowler is the acclaimed author of fifteen previous novels, including the award-winning FULL DARK HOUSE, and four other Peculiar Crimes Unit mysteries, WHITE CORRIDOR, THE WATER ROOM, SEVENTY-SEVEN CLOCKS, and TEN SECOND STAIRCASE. He lives in London.

Ed here: Christopher Fowler is one of my favorite writers. He's able to do it all--mystery, suspense and what I call urban dread as opposed to traditional horror. He also has an exceptionally intelligent and interesting website in whic...

Everyone hates each other — it's Hollywood

On his show Friday night Bill Maher mentioned how suspicious it is that even though "The Hurt Locker" has been out for many months only in the last two weeks are people coming forward to questions its credibility. I agree. This has all the stench of a plot launched by someone competing against Hurt for Oscar glory. But as this article from the UK Times online points out, myriad are the plots afoot.


Everyone hates each other — it's Hollywood

Chris Ayres, Los Angeles

It is a night of glittering st...

Elvis Presley: The return of the King

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Elvis Presley: The return of the King

Elvis Presley left the army 50 years ago this week, to suggestions that the music he pioneered had died in his absence. The truth turned out to be a little different, says Richard Williams

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 March 2010 21.30 GMT


On the morning of 3 March, 1960, after a flight from Germany broken by a refuelling stop at Prestwick Airport, 30 miles south of Glasgow (the only time he set foot in Britain), the DC7 jetliner carrying Elvis Presley landed...

Pro-File: Duane Swierczynski

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Pro-File: Duane Swierczynski

The 2010 Remix

Hi, Ed:

When you suggested I do another Pro-File, I went back and realized that I submitted the original back in March 2006—exactly four years ago. So I went back, checked my answers, and updated where needed. (I used to be a magazine fact-checker, so this is second nature to me.)

—Duane

March 2006 Bio:

Duane Swierczynski is the author of Secret Dead Men (Point Blank Press) and The Wheelman (St. Martin's Minotaur)—the latter of which was praised by the Wa...

Pro-File: Kevin O'Brien

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1. Tell us about your current novel (or project).

VICIOUS is how you could describe Mama's Boy, a serial killer who kept
Seattle in the grip of fear for two years back in the late 90's. He
abducted women right in front of their sons, and later strangled them.
Mama's Boy was never caught, but the killings suddenly stopped in 2001-at
least in the Seattle area. Now it's ten years later, and Susan Blanchette,
a beautiful widow, is taking a weekend getaway in a resort town north of
Seattle with her to...

Mystery Scene 2010 Winter Issue #113; Ed on Radio tonight

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2010 Winter Issue #113 From Kate Stine:

Hi everyone!

Putting together this issue has been something of a trip down memory lane. One of the first detectives I came across in my early reading was Father Brown. Steven Steinbock makes an interesting case that the debut of G.K. Chesterton's little Catholic priest in 1910 brought a moral and spiritual depth to the mystery genre that it had previously lacked and often still does. Chesterton's other great strength was the quality of his prose. Even as...

Pro-File: Lynn Kostoff A CHOICE OF NIGHTMARES

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"A Choice of Nightmares is noir at its lurid best."
— Megan Abbott, bestselling author of Bury Me Deep

"Lynn Kostoff is that rarest breed of stylist who can, in a minimum space, evoke a whole world."
— Marcus Sakey, author of The Blade Itself

"Kostoff is clearly one of the unsung heroes of modern crime fiction. A Choice Of Nightmares is a page-turning adventure from a novelist with a style the rest of us can only wish for."
— Charlie Stella, author of Mafiya

"Perfect. I love this book."
— Sara Gran,...

Pro-File: Toni L.P. Kelner; Health Report

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Toni L.P. Kelner is a firm believer in multi-tasking. In mysteries, Who Killed the Pinup Queen?, the second in her "Where are they now?" series, is just out. In urban fantasy, she edits anthologies with Charlaine Harris. Their third, Death's Excellent Vacation, is due out in August. In short stories, she has her first noir story coming out in March in Carolyn Haine's anthology Delta Blues and a paranormal courtroom drama in the MWA anthology Crimes by Moonlight. Kelner has won the Agatha A...

Pro-File: Tony L.P. Kelner; Health Report

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Toni L.P. Kelner is a firm believer in multi-tasking. In mysteries, Who Killed the Pinup Queen?, the second in her "Where are they now?" series, is just out. In urban fantasy, she edits anthologies with Charlaine Harris. Their third, Death's Excellent Vacation, is due out in August. In short stories, she has her first noir story coming out in March in Carolyn Haine's anthology Delta Blues and a paranormal courtroom drama in the MWA anthology Crimes by Moonlight. Kelner has won the Agatha A...