The Crime Lady: A Few Questions for Robert Littell
Dear TCL Readers: Robert Littell on Par Jupiter!, May 2019 A few years ago, deep into the pandemic, I decided it was time to acquaint myself with the...
The Crime Lady: Family Histories
Or, what I did on my winter vacation Bryna Bercovitch, 1940s (photo credit: Raquel Ary Derozza) Dear TCL Readers, It’s 2025. Already this new year is...
The Crime Lady: Best of 2024, Raymond Chandler Auction, and More
Dear TCL Readers: Well, it was a week. I suppose I’ll say that every week from now on, I grant. But it does feel like we’re speedrunning through history, and...
The Crime Lady: The Death and Life of Patricia McGlone
December 2024 Rolling Stone cover Dear TCL Readers: Later on in this newsletter I’ll speak more about the forthcoming book and some other things I’ve been...
The Crime Lady: Reboot, Redux
I'm back with updates on my new book, moving platforms, and plans for fresh essays!
Stay Tuned in 2024
Yes, I'm also leaving Substack for someplace TBD.
Substackers Against Nazis
A collective letter to Substack leadership
I'm (Not) Spending Hanukkah in Santa Monica
But I did spend far too much time researching the origin of this late-career Tom Lehrer song.
2023 Favorites; LoA Noir Event; and More
It's Best-of List Season.
What (Or Rather, Who) Got Left Out of MAESTRO
A newsletter about Judy Holliday (which means Patricia Highsmith will show up here somehow)
The Crime Lady: Domestic Disturbances, and Revisiting Hammett
Dear TCL Readers: Going to keep this newsletter on the briefer side, what with it being a holiday week. Earlier this year, it was a great pleasure to be...
Crime Lady: Staying Pesky in the Sunshine
Q&A with Mandy Matney, Author of BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS
Crime Novel Catch-Up #2: Before You Knew My Name
On an award-winning novel from 2022 I am only now getting around to reading
Crime Lady: Crime Novel Catch-Up
Introducing an occasional, but hopefully regular, feature on crime novels vintage and recent I didn't get around to reading until now
The Crime Lady: Helen Garner; You're Wrong About; and More
Dear TCL Readers: It’s fall, the news is terrible, I’m mostly hunkering down to work. So I’ll keep this newsletter on the briefer side. This past spring, I...
The Crime Lady: Thursday Murder Man
Dear TCL Readers: Happy Fall! Soon it will be Rosh Hashanah, the start of the High Holidays, and for a lot of reasons, I am looking forward to a new year and...
The Crime Lady: Making This A Proper Newsletter Again
Dear TCL Readers: It’s sweltering as I write this, as a heat wave has descended upon the Northeast after pummeling the Southwest for quite some time. It...
The Crime Lady: EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN Is Out Now
Dear TCL Readers: I will make this newsletter brief, because the news is in the headline. My latest anthology, Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era...
The Crime Lady: Events for Evidence of Things Seen, Recent Writing, and More
Dear TCL Readers, My next anthology, Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning, will be out on July 4, which is a little less than two weeks...
The Crime Lady: Dark Tales, Revisited
Dear TCL Readers: This newsletter is a little different. It republishes my June 12, 2011 article for The Daily, a long-defunct News Corp. publication that...
