Compendium of Mystery News 071113

Today's compendium of recently published mystery news articles:

• Harlan Coben exposes his wit in a lecture at the Performing Arts Center in Tulsa (OK), and reveals just a little more than we needed to know!

• Angie Harmon discusses on TVGuide.com why she joined ABC's television series Women's Murder Club, based on the novels by James Patterson.

• Universal DVD Games has released After the Funeral, a game based on the Agatha Christie murder mystery featuring Hercule Poirot. (MBN note: This game is apparently only available in the UK at present; there is an entertaining online demo, however.)

• In other game news, The Adventure Company released a version of its PC game, Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None, for the Nintendo Wii last week.

• Mystery columnist Oline H. Cogdill reviews two new books in her column on Sun-Sentinel.com.

• Time Magazine interviews bestselling author Richard North Patterson. His latest book, The Race, is not a mystery per se, but if his past work is any guide, it ought to be a terrific thriller.

• Dinah Birch reviews two new books on Arthur Conan Doyle in The Times Literary Supplement. The first, The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, offers the first definitive biography of the baffling author. The biographer had access to Doyle's newly released personal archive that included correspondence, diaries, original manuscripts and more. The second, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, is remarkable annotated collection of Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence that offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, stated that "[t]his will be essential reading for all fans of Conan Doyle and his sleuth."

• The biography of another enigmatic mystery author was published last week: The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman. Allen Barra has a review on The New York Sun's website.

• Also on NYSun.com are Otto Penzler's latest, and always entertaining, observations on The Crime Scene.

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