Today's compendium of recently published mystery news articles:
• Jem Bloomfeld writes a very insightful article about the whodunit for the California Literary Review. (An excerpt: "Completely insane killers and meaningless crime have no place in the classic whodunit: murder needs to be explained, usually by reference to simple human desires such as money, love and revenge. The reason cannot be too good, however, or the reader might sympathize with the killer, tipping the moral balancing act which these novels perform. Murders ... must be the result of understandable, but reprehensible, action."
• On the NYSun.com, Otto Penzler reviews the television mystery series Foyle's War which he calls "perhaps the best pure detective program since the early years of Columbo." (MBN Note: We agree, and are currently watching episodes from the 4th and most recent season. Mysteries on TV has the first four seasons of Foyle's War available for purchase on DVD.)
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Thursday, August 02, 2007
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