16 posts tagged georges_simenon

Recommended by Scott Phillips at NoirCon. (Original title: The Watchmaker of Everton.) Phillips speaks, I order. And this one sounds great. From the interior promo copy: She was not yet 20, but she was a wild country girl, female rather than woman and every movement of her hips disturbed him.

One of the highlights of NoirCon (this past weekend; no, I didn't blog about it this weekend; yes, I suck) was listening to Scott Phillips and Bill Boyle talk about Georges Simenon. For years I'd written ol' Georges off as the author of a detective series that looked a bit too stuffy for my tastes.

Day Three had an early beginning and a late end at NoirCon 2008. What I don't get to now, I'll discuss tomorrow night. The convention's one session that dealt explicitly and exclusively with international fiction unexpectedly had little to do with the usual subjects at Detectives Beyond Borders.

I'm just back from the first evening of my first crime-fiction convention, NoirCon 2008 in Philadelphia. Though the event is devoted principally to American crime, the opening sessions contained a touch or two of special international interest, starting, of course with the name: noir, a French word adopted for an American sub-genre of crime fiction and film.

I'm just back from the first evening of my first crime-fiction convention, NoirCon 2008 in Philadelphia. Though the event is devoted principally to American crime, the opening sessions contained a touch or two of special international interest, starting, of course with the name: noir, a French word adopted for an American sub-genre of crime fiction and film.

A week and a half ago, I quoted Joe Gores' praise of Michael Gilbert's dapper but deadly fictional spies, Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens. Gores' thumbs-up appears in a useful collection called 100 Great Detectives, edited by Maxim Jakubowski and winner of an Anthony Award for best critical work in 1992.

Since I missed out one week, this TT means that I have been doing this meme for one year. And I have enjoyed every week of it! I notice that a lot of my fellow bloggers whom I have met through this site are writers, as am I in my own only-one-book-published-so-far way, so this list may interest them.

Probably this latin saying is abstracted from its original context but I could not resist (vanitas! vanitas vanitatis!) to parade a bit my (not very extensive) latin quotes… In fact, recently finishing reading one of Paul Coelho books I was thinking at “the secret” of this author’s succes (and not

We’re loving The Chancer (right), people. Relatively new to the realms of lit crit, he is delicate in his appraisals, Solomon-like in his judgements. Here’s The Chancer on Benny Blanco, aka Benjamin Black: “Let’s get this right again: Booker Prize winner John Banville, distressed by his poor sales,

The Rap Sheet posts a series of retrospectives on The New Black Mask. The posts are full of good reading, as, indeed, the publication seems to have been. Some comments from Inspector Maigret's creator are of special interest.