Today's compendium of recently published mystery news articles:
• The Associated Press (as reported in The Boston Globe) has a brief article on Walter Mosley who has said that Blonde Faith will be the last book in the Easy Rawlins mystery series.
• Bill Pronzini has been been selected to receive the title of Grand Master from the Mystery Writers of America. He will be honored at the 2008 Edgar Awards banquet. (Read the press release here.)
• In other MWA news, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson will serve as the 2007 / 2008 Honorary Co-Chairs of MWA:Reads, the Mystery Writers of America's youth literacy outreach. The program joins authors of juvenile and young adult mysteries with American children, parents, teachers, and librarians in a year-round celebration and promotion of mystery writing and reading designed to foster literacy, deductive reasoning, and critical thinking skills.
• Louis B. Parks in the Houston Chronicle talks to Max Allan Collins who is completing 6 novels left unfinished by Mickey Spillane at the time of his death in July 2006.
• Eleanor Glover in the Daily Mail interviews David Suchet, star of the hugely popular Poirot mysteries on television.
• The Observer is reporting that Kenneth Branagh plans to take on the role of hunchback lawyer Shardlake, the idiosyncratic character at the center of a series of historical mysteries by C. J. Sansom, for a television series in development by the BBC.
• In an AP article, Dennis Lehane talks about how lucky he is in Hollywood. Two of his books have already been made into movies (the Oscar winning mystery Mystic River and more recently Gone Baby Gone, the 4th mystery in the Patrick Kenzie and Angele Gennaro series); a third, Shutter Island, will be directed by Martin Scorsese next year.
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
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