A Storyteller Who Got the Details Right (Donald E. Westlake)

I Was Looking for Charles Willeford: Nothing Is Inchoate, or, “When Did You Get Interested in Abused Children, Helen?” plus two interviews,  Don Herron and Ray Banks

Ah, Treachery! (Ross Thomas)

Come Out of the Darkness Into the Light of Day (Eric Ambler)

The Professional (Thomas Perry)

An Unusual Blend of Poetry and Fantasy (RIP Peter Dickinson)

Agatha Christie at 125

Lawrence Block Blindfold Test (and take the test yourself)

Lew Archer at 100

Two Masterpieces by Elmore Leonard

Allan Guthrie on Noir

The Crimes of the Century

This isn’t crime fiction, but still literary:

May I Say That You Bear Out a Deeply Held Conviction of Mine as to the Repetitive Contacts of Certain Individual Souls in the Earthly Lives of Other Individual Souls (Anthony Powell)

And this isn’t about books, but next door:

Marlowe’s Music (the scores for cinematic adaptations of Raymond Chandler)