2020 Reviews Our reviews section examines the latest mystery offerings, covering books, anthologies, audio books, and DVDs. THE MISADVENTURES OF NERO WOLFE: PARODIES AND PASTICHES FEATURING THE GREAT DETECTIVE OF WEST 35TH STREET Edited by Josh Pachter New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2020. $17.99 The surest sign that something has become a genuine part of […]
Interview: Douglas Preston on old museums and co-authoring bestselling thrillers… (EXCERPTS In 1988, Douglas Preston—then editor, writer and manager of publications for the American Museum of Natural History in New York—received a letter from St. Martin’s editor Lincoln Child asking him if he was interested in writing a book detailing the history of the museum. […]
The New Strength of Independent Bookstores While I am not consistently doing a happy dance—January and February here in Ann Arbor, Michigan, are long, cold months—as an independent bookseller, I have new reasons to be cautiously optimistic. After the closing of Borders, whose mother ship store was just a few blocks away, we’ve seen […]