Thomas “Tommy Salami” Pluck hit the hardboiled fiction scene online like a Tasmanian Devil a couple of years back, taking a bite out of every venue in reach. I knew him best for his hysterical productivity and...

Dateline: Los Angeles, city of eternal night. Though the original home of Noir at the Bar, the reading event where crime-fiction’s most talented drunkards gather, will always be St. Louis, MO, the franchise has grown and reached...

I’m trying to figure out whether it is a sad statement about me, my reading habits, or the times in which I was raised, that the mention of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer series only harkens me back...

My friend’s dad took us to see Willow one sunny summer’s day in 1988.  It was a good movie and all, but honestly I was extremely distracted throughout the whole thing.  All I could think about was...

Booze and crime goes hand in hand like booze and being hugely attractive and winning in life. I am drinking while writing this, because something something simpatico and shit. After speaking with my editor about the topic...

Looking over two of the most recent book covers from Hard Case Crime (HCC) you can’t help but see a pattern. The Comedy Is Finished by Donald E. Westlake has a gorgeous painted cover from Gregory Manchess,...

Take an inside line from a pro marketer: All marketing is a scam. That isn’t to say there’s no truth in advertising. Objective facts have their place. But to some extent, you’ve got to lay on the...

To paraphrase the great Michael Keaton, “You want to get nuts, Crime Heads? Let’s get nuts.” By which I mean, of course, let’s talk true crime. Now you may be thinking, “How is non-fiction nuttier than the...

Megan Abbott is widely considered one of the best active writers, and there’s good reason for that: she is. Having written a string of instant noir classics including The Song Is You and Queenpin, she should be...

Eight noir novels to help fill your endless summer with a sense of overwhelming dread and paranoia. Okay, so I’m the professor who wakes up three weeks before the end of the semester and hits everybody over...