What of Watson? How Important is Dr Watson? Readers of any of my five novels or the short stories will realize I’ve very considerable admiration for Dr. John H. Watson. I’m not the first to deplore the traditional Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Hollywood portrayal of the former Army surgeon and wondrous chronicler as bumbling, slow-witted, and […]
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The Mission of Crime Writing
Mission of Crime Writing Writing detective fiction wasn’t really popular in Israel until very recently. When I grew up, in the 1980s and 1990s Tel Aviv, detective-fiction shelves in libraries and bookshops were exceptionally empty: the tradition of Hebrew detective writing began only in the late 1980s with pioneer writer Batya Gur, and you couldn’t […]
TOP TEN BREAKOUT CRIME NOVELS OF THE LAST THIRTY YEARS
TOP TEN BREAKOUT CRIME NOVELS OF THE LAST THIRTY YEARS The Breakout Novel. It’s one of the most sought-after creatures in the literary forest. And one of the rarest. And yet every so often, it happens: that book that takes an author who was previously only known at the bar at Bouchercon—or other places hardcore […]