Tag Archives: Crime

How Long? (Ben Franklin Wants to Know)

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Gene Stewart

In 1955, ten years before her mysterious death, celebrity journalist Dorothy Kilgallen — now there’s an Irish drinking name, even though she was American and sober — heard a story while on vacation in Britain from a high-ranking military officer … Continue reading →

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A Tribe Among Us, Unseen

Posted on June 18, 2016 by Gene Stewart

Finished Vol. 1 of Missing 411, subtitled Western U.S. by David Paulides.  Began Vol. 2. The Eastern U.S. & Canada.  Also reading The Phantom Killer by James Presley.  Also Finders Keepers by Stephen King.  A YA novel, two anthologies, and … Continue reading →

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A Review of The Scribe by Matthew Guinn

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Gene Stewart

The Scribe Matthew Guinn Norton hc, 292pp $25.95 US ISBN:  978-0-393-23929-4 Set in 1881 Atlanta during the early days of the New South, The Scribe delves with depth and subtlety into the many cross-currents flowing at that time and eddying … Continue reading →

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Out by Natsuro Kirino First Vintage International Edition, Jan. 2005 Translated by Stephen Snyder for Kodansha, Ltd. pb, 400pp, $13.95, ISBN: 1-4000-7837-7

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Out by Natsuro Kirino First Vintage International Edition, Jan. 2005 Translated by Stephen Snyder for Kodansha, Ltd. pb, 400pp, $13.95, ISBN: 1-4000-7837-7 Perhaps the title confused browsers into thinking this is a book about someone coming out of the closet … Continue reading →

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Review of The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Gene Stewart

The Thief By Fuminori Nakamura Soho Crime, 2012 Translated from the Japanese novel Suri, published in 2009 Winner of the Oe Prize Winner of the 2014 David L. Goodis Prize for Noir Fiction 211pp, trade paperback Finished The Thief by … Continue reading →

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Review of The Man Who Would Be Jack (the Ripper) by David Bullock

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Gene Stewart

The Man Who Would Be Jack: The Hunt for the Real Ripper by David Bullock The Robson Press, 2012 294pp, 1 illustration, 3 appendices, no index ISBN: 9781849543408 A Review by Gene Stewart In the prologue we witness an inmate … Continue reading →

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Climate Change Tarantella: A Plea for Culture Change

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Gene Stewart

If you inform yourself of climate changes, you clearly see the pattern compressing and worsening. Yes, it’s always changed, but never this steeply this fast, and never with such consequences. It is not inevitable to collapse a stable system. That’s … Continue reading →

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Snowed In by NSA Obfuscation, or: Duped Into Debating the Wrong Thing, Again

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Gene Stewart

The media, backed by corporate, are fogging this NSA/Snowden (snowed in?) discussion by conflicting what he did — whistle-blowing to draw attention to crimes –to focus instead on false issues like personal privacy. They are doing this by linking every … Continue reading →

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The Crime

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Gene Stewart

…Is it any wonder, then, that my knees buckle, my control leaves me, when I come home the very next night — the very night after I had shouldered the blame and made up with her, for the kids¹ sakes — to find her at it again?… Continue reading →

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