SONS OF SPADE

Tom Leins, author of the Joe Rey stories is kind of enough to visit  my little site and tell you all about his biggest influences... ...

I haven't done any guest posts in awhile but I couldn't refuse this one by Scandanavian bestselling author Emelie Schepp, whose J...

Aside from being a swell guy, Ben Solomon had a story in the Shamus Sampler and writes the kind of hardboiled PI fiction in the style that s...

This week, I introduce eighteen college students to Sam Spade. We're viewing the John Huston film "The Maltese Falcon," watchi...

C.E. Lawrence wrote a guest post for us to promote the new Lee Campbell thriller Silent Slaughter, coming in 2012. Crime has been with us fo...

The new Sherlock Holmes novel The House of Silk Any detective fiction buff worth their salt will be familiar with the adventures of Sherlock...

Here's a guest post by my friend and Hardboiled Collective member Michael Haskins. Check out his blog as well. As the two or three foll...

Jochem has been good enough to invite me to guest blog on the back of the release of my psycho-noir novel “ Drawing Dead ”. It got a crackin...

Great PI Novels From 2011 If you’re looking for a fun read, you may find these PI novels to be a ride worth taking. “Started Early, Took My ...

Sometimes a writer needs to look outside their comfort zone to find constructive inspiration for a story. When writers draw inspiration sole...

Fans of Bruce DeSilva, author of Rogue Island might have seen the cool 'Look Who's Reading' posts on his blog . I asked Bruce to...

I'm delighted to offer you this guest post by Austin S. Camacho, author of the Hannibal Jones series and The Piranha Assignment . My Han...

If you are anything like me, you may find video games frustrating and time-draining. Although, to be fair, many would say that reading detec...

I suppose I’d first have to talk about the whole “Medieval Noir” thing. When I set out to write a medieval mystery, I didn’t want the same s...