In addition to the announcement of the Edgar Awards by Mystery Writers of America, various other tributes also related to Edgar Allan Poe transpired around his birthday anniversary this month. The decades-long "Poe Toaster" Baltimore tradition continued at Westminster Presbyterian Church in which an unnamed man paid tribute at Poe's gravesite with flowers, words in Latin, and a toast. Several publications also contributed to the lore, as in the Washington Post's look at Poe's brief military journey; and Raidió Teilifís Éireann's take on how Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood. Untapped New York listed "10 Places to Remember Edgar Allan Poe in NYC." And if you want to own a piece of Poe memorabilia all your own, you can bid on a rare signed letter by Poe at the online Bonhams Skinner's Fine Books and Rare Manuscripts Sale. Plus, coming up Feb 16 – Mar 2 at the 92 Street Y in NYC, Warburg Institute Professor and author John Tresch will conduct a mini-workshop on a lesser-known side to Poe: a man of science who was an avid consumer of scientific developments.
Janet Rudolph's Mystery Fanfare blog is celebrating the Chinese New Year with a look back at Mystery Readers Journal: Mystery in Asia (Volume 34: 3: 2018), and a list of mysteries that take place during the Lunar New Year.
The Mystery Writers of America Midwest chapter is sponsoring Queering the Crime Genre, a panel discussion with Greg Herren, John Copenhaver, JM Redmann, and Robyn Gigl, hosted by Anne Laughlin and Meredith Doench. This an online event on February 9 at 6:00pm Cental / 7:00pm Eastern, and you can register for free to attend via this link.
A Katonah Village Library mystery and thriller writers panel will be held Thursday Feb. 2, at 6:30 p.m. Fran Hauser will moderate the panel featuring authors Wendy Corsi Staub, Katie Sise, Wendy Walker, and Liao Butler discussing their latest releases. The event in Katonah, New York, is free and open to the public with no advance registration required.
More and more crime conferences are returning to in-person events after going online only during Covid. The California Crime Writers Conference (CCWC) will also be back with an in-person, two-day event to be held June 10-11, 2023 at the Hilton Los Angeles (Culver City). This year’s Guests of Honor are Deborah Crombie, bestselling and award-winning author of the Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James detective series, and critically acclaimed crime novelist Rachel Howzell Hall.
Twenty years after the end of the iconic television series Columbo, featuring Peter Falk as the seemingly bumbling but shrewd Los Angeles homicide detective, Tumblr users have rediscovered "the ultimate comfort TV show" and turned it into one of the internet's new darlings.
Writing for Book Riot, Adam Rizer investigated the history of "the Butler Did It" trope in crime fiction.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Allison Brennan, applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Don't Open the Door.
If you're currently part of the dating scene and also love mysteries, you might want to help this guy out.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 weekly is "Roe vs. Wade Falls" by Jennifer Lagier.
In the Q&A roundup, Indie Crime Scene interviewed Chad Boudreaux, whose debut novel, Scavenger Hunt, will be published on January 31, 2023; Writers Who Kill spoke with Annette Dashofy about the first book in her new series featuring photographer Emma Anderson and police detective Matthias Honeywell, Where the Guilty Hide; and Nerd Daily spoke with thriller author Allison Brennan about Don’t Open The Door, the second installment in her Regan Merritt series and follows Regan and her husband, Grant, seeking justice for their murdered 10 year-old son.
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