Today's compendium of recently published mystery news articles:
• Winners of the 2007 Quill Awards were announced earlier this week. In the Mystery / Suspense category, Laura Lippman was the winner for her novel, What the Dead Know. (MBN note: Mystery Awards is one of the most comprehensive websites for finding information on various awards given in recognition of outstanding writing in detective fiction.)
• The National Library of Scotland has teamed up with the police and publisher Orion Books to organize Crime Scene Edinburgh: 20 Years of Rankin and Rebus, to coincide with the recent release of the final Rebus novel, Exit Music.
• 20th Century Fox has given a pilot commitment to Lies and Promises, a potential television series based on Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar mysteries, to be produced by Hart Hanson, the creator of the Bones series (based on characters created by Kathy Reichs).
• Rick Newman (on USNews.com) interviews crime novelist Elmore Leonard. (MBN note: Visit Mysteries on DVD for more information on the movies made from several of Leonard's books.)
• Cameron Hughes (on CHUD.com) interviews Steve Hockensmith, author of the Holmes on the Range mystery series.
• The New York Post takes a look at some of the hard-boiled mysteries being published this fall (Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell, Now & Then by Robert B. Parker, and more).
• Matthew Pearl, author of The Poe Shadow, believes he has found evidence that solves the mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's death.
• An excerpt of Patricia Cornwell's latest Kay Scarpetta mystery, Book of the Dead, is available on the ABC News website.
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Sunday, October 28, 2007
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