Book Review: More Sherlock Holmes Pastiches

Book Review: More Sherlock Holmes Pastiches By: Chris Chan New entries in the Sherlock Holmes saga have become a subgenre in themselves in crime fiction, and this review will cover some interesting new releases. Liese Sherwood-Fabre has released three books in a series of the early years of Sherlock Holmes.  In her works, Sherlock is […]

DVD Review: Perry Mason: The Complete First Season

DVD Review: Perry Mason: The Complete First Season By: Chris Chan The most glaring problem with the new HBO series Perry Mason is that the creators wanted to make a gritty noir story filled with the darker side of human nature and present-day social concerns, but someone decided that the series needed name recognition, so […]

The Challenges of Storytelling

The Challenges of Storytelling By: Nev March I’m reading Chandler’s The Long Goodbye and just like that, a line had me tearing up. What was the line? A cop tells Philip Marlowe that he’s been wasting his time trying to clear the name of his dead friend Terry Lennox. He says, “And he wasn’t much […]