Editor's note: This flashback comes from issue four. Mystery One bookstore owner Richard Katz offered up his thoughts on some of the more recent books: In the age when the Publishers are run by giant or mid-sized conglomerates, many top authors do not receive the...
THE SHADOW by Tom Jenkins Originally published in Crimespree issue 5. An urbanized latter-day Scarlet Pimpernel to the rescue. Suddenly from out of the darkness, a cloaked figure begins to take shape from only a blur in the shadows to become a mysterious and...
This article originally appeared in issue 4 of Crimespree. If someone asks me who my all-time favorite crime writer is, usually I demur and sheepishly try to evade the question. “Too many to list,” is one answer I use. “If I narrowed it down to one, I’d have a lot...
From issue 3 (October 2004) I’m jet-lagged. I forgot to pack my favorite perfume. Julia and I took a wrong turn a half-hour ago and now we’re lost in rush-hour traffic, wondering if we’ll make the reading on time. And what if no one shows up? At least we’ll eat...
This article originally appeared in issue 2 ( I was introduced to motorcycles in 1974. I was living in San Francisco then, the Haight Ashbury to be exact. And back then we called it Frisco because it sounded cooler. I was 18 and had picked up some bad habits,...
Spencer-Fleming for Hire – Issue 23 “I’m about to reveal the secret for creating suspense,” she said. “Are you listening? It’s--” She clutched her throat. She stared in horror at her tea cup. “It’s...” The well-placed curtain line, ringing out a scene or chapter,...
