The annual Agatha Awards are also known as The Hardest Possible Way to Get a Ceramic Teapot. If most of us wanted such an item, we’d go to a swanky kitchen shop or even seek out an artisanal potter. Rather than doing that or stealing someone else’s—which would seem like a natural for crime fans—all…
What is that odd, blurry row of lucite gravestones, you ask? They’re beautifull etched Anthony Awards, only my phone is not ideal for photos, and I forgot to bring a decent camera. Therefore, these on-scene pictures are tragically unable to capture the splendor of several hundred people quaffing coffee and scarfing eggs. (Only half of…
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The Wolfe Pack was founded nearly thirty-five years ago to study, analyze, and thoroughly enjoy the numerous Nero Wolfe books and novellas written by Rex Stout. Although the club is headquartered in New York City, site of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin’s adventures radiating from the brownstone on West 35th Street, the Wolfe Pack has…
Late last week, the Crime Writers of Canada hung honors proudly upon the winners of this year’s Arthur Ellis Awards, given in 6 categories to Canadians or Canadian citizens abroad, as well as the “Unhanged Arthur,” awarded to the best first crime novel by an unpublished author. Louise Penny, who’s having a positively monotonous winning…
