For a while it was trendy to call any crime fiction noir if it showed shades of gray. I have a much stricter definition of noir: there'...

  Black Cat Weekly allows me to write and get published unusual mystery and crime stories that don't fit the standard mystery magazines....

  Several promises I can make about Pariah . It's as "hell-on-wheels" a crime novel as you'll find Nothing I've writte...

  Pariah , which is now for the first time available as a kindle book, was originally published by Serpent's Tail in 2009 and was named ...

  Now that Pariah is available as a Kindle Book I'm revisiting Maureen Corrigan's Washington Post review of Pariah, which led to Pa...

  Back in 2007, I was pissed that every New York publisher rejected Small Crimes (some of them two or more times), and I got even more pisse...

I'm now writing what I call the Early Julius Katz stories--stories that take place before Julius met Lily Rosten in the first story titl...

  An excerpt from the Morris Brick story James & Bond from Detectives and Spies: VICTOR Specter had good reason to be nervous given the ...

  (an excerpt from Detectives and Spies) THREE sections. Four different types of mystery and crime stories. Whether it’s the brilliant B...

I'm going through old papers and found a poem I had written many years. I don't know when I wrote it, but since I had used a typewri...