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Hello everyone,
Although we made it through Hurricane Sandy unscathed, the same can't be said for the huge construction crane that was twisted and left dangling over Midtown Manhattan like the sword of Damocles.
Before it was secured, this crane was within falling distance of our offices, so we were evacuated for over a week. As a consequence, Holiday Issue #127 was held up. It just went into the mail and should be reaching you over the next week or so. Our apologies for the delay.
It was a different disaster, this one man-made, that inspired Michael Connelly's latest book, The Black Box. To celebrate his 20-year collaboration with LAPD detective Harry Bosch, Connelly puts Harry on a case that has roots back in the horrifying Los Angeles riots of 1992. There's also good news for fans on the TV front in Oline Cogdill's interesting interview.
Get out those cocktail shakers - Nick and Nora Charles are back! In this issue, Scottt K. Ratner reviews The Return of the Thin Man, two previously unpublished novellas about the perpetually tippling 'tecs created by Dashiell Hammett. Hammett's time in Hollywood is definitely part of the story. The book also offers interesting essays by Richard Layman, Hammett's biographer, and Joan Rivett, the author's granddaughter.
Also in this issue, Jon L. Breen takes a look at current legal thrillers and courtroom procedurals. Then Joseph Goodrich takes us on a tour of Stephen Sondheim's work in the mystery genre, which is much more extensive and interesting than I, for one, had realized. Ed Gorman shines a light on often underappreciated character actors in crime films - here's looking at you, Frances McDormand! And Kevin Burton Smith gives Santa, and you, a helping hand with our annual Mystery Scene Gift Guide. Personally, I'm asking Santa for The Complete Peter Gunn DVD set this year...
We hope you have a wonderful holiday season. See you in 2013!
Best wishes,
Kate Stine
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Writers on Reading
Rhys Bowen on Delicious Reads
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Right: Colorized version of Ernest H. Shepard's 1931 illustration for The Wind in the Willows. |
 For someone with a small appetite it's strange that I absolutely love to read about food. I don't mean cookbooks - they imply that I might have to actually attempt to make the dishes in question. I mean meals that are part of novels. I love to pretend I'm part of long banquets at stately homes, to smell the wood smoke of freshly caught trout grilled over a campfire, even to sit in a Bedouin tent and try to imagine being presented with the sheep's eye as the prized delicacy. I don't think I could manage to swallow it! Two books that come to mind immediately in this category are the children's favorite, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, and The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones....
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Overheard
"Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, 'I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?'" - Margaret Maron in The Bootlegger's Daughter (1992) Margaret Maron and fellow honoree Ken Follett are the 2013 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award recipients. Read more about the awards at the Mystery Scene blog from Mystery Scene's Oline Cogdill (who, by the way, is the 2013 MWA Raven Award recipient with co-awardee Mysterious Galaxy bookstore). Congratulations to all the honorees.
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December Mystery Screen
 Deadfall
Opens December 7
After a casino heist ends badly for brother and sister Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde), the two split up and attempt an escape into Canada during a fierce blizzard. Addison flees across the country while Liza, wandering through the snow, is picked up by an ex-con named Jay (Charlie Hunnam) on his way home to Thanksgiving reunion with his parents, June (Sissy Spacek) and retired sheriff Chet (Kris Kristofferson). In the ultimate Thanksgiving gone bad, loyalties will be tested when the lives of the two families violently collide.
 Jack Reacher
Opens December 21
Director Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) brings Lee Child's Jack Reacher to the big screen in the form of Tom Cruise, as the ex-military police officer on the hunt for a murderous sniper. Longtime readers of the series will finally be able to see for themselves whether Cruise's depiction measures up to the 250 pound, six-foot-five, towering hero in spirit (if not body). Mystery Scene blogger Oline Cogdill has her doubts, but concedes the hardworking Cruise, who is known to do many of his own stunts, just may prove skeptics wrong. Robert Duvall, Richard Jenkins, Rosamund Pike, and Werner Herzog co-star.
 Django Unchained
Opens December 25
Quentin Tarantino directs an A-list cast led by Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave-turned-bounty hunter who teams up with the eccentric Dr. King Schultz (Christopher Walken) to track criminals in an atmospheric pre-Civil War American South. Django's quest to find his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), whom he lost in the slave trade, leads the bounty hunters to "Candyland," a plantation owned by Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), where slaves are groomed to fight gladiator style for sport. Action, violence, and spectacle in the grand Tarantino style ensue during the wild escape. Also stars Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson.
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Jack Reacher - Official Trailer #2 (HD)
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012
Six gifts for giving
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Congrats to our winners!
Arcadia Publishing and Mystery Scene are happy to announce the three lucky winners of signed copies of New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial (Arcadia Publishing, $21.99) by Mark W. Falzini and James Davidson.
Paula T. of Boca Raton, Florida
Omar A. of Artesia, New Mexico
Gretta T. of Bloomflield Hills, Michigan
To read an excerpt click HERE.
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