San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) The best film in this five-movie set - and certainly the most well known - is Fritz Lang's hard-edged "The Big Heat" (1953), based on the novel by William P. McGivern. A police detective (Glenn Ford) uncovers corruption and suffers...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
In addition to Charles Cumming’s tribute to Journey into Fear in The Rap Sheet, today brings a load of “forgotten books” posts elsewhere in the blogosphere. Some of the highlights: Bill Crider on Preacher, by Ted Thackery Jr.; James Reasoner on Rogue Cop, by William P. McGivern; Scott D. Parker on The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury; Martin Edwards on Thus Was Adonis Murdered, by...
Secret Dead Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2007
Today I hit the NYC Paperback & Pulp Fiction Expo -- Gary Lovisi's annual festival of all things good and holy in this world -- with Ed Pettit. We left Philly a little after 8 a.m. and made it to Manhattan by 9:44 a.m. (Gotta love the non-traffic on a Sunday morning.) By 10 we had slipped the front desk a pair of fins and made our way to the main room, which looked like this: But wait. You really...
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