Crisp Suits, Controversial Martinis, New Music
Suits. Drinks. Sounds....
Three-Martini Interrogation
Martini interrogation....
Summer Crime, “Young Lawyers,” Martinis
Summer’s heat is fully upon us. Let us take a moment for crime fiction and cocktails. For recent crime-fiction releases, take a look at Midmonth...
Friday cocktails: Barware, Jameson Slushies, Perfect Martinis and Emerson, Lake & Palmer
A brief guide for the weekend. It’s hard to operate a home bar without good barware, as explained in All the Essential Barware You Need...
Cocktails and Crime: Martini Quiz, Vermouth Ratios, Posner v. Holmes, New Gins and Crime Conventioneers
As is customary on Friday, a few White Collar Wire notes on cocktails and crime fiction. June 19 was “World Martini Day.” Seriously. The London...
Bernard DeVoto, the Martini and “The Violet Hour”
In my experience, this is the best book about martinis: The Hour by Bernard DeVoto A now unjustly-neglected essayist and critic, DeVoto published The Hour:...
Crime, Fowler, and Cosmo’s Factory
Crime fiction lists, cocktails, manners and grammars, and Cosmo's Factory....
Thanksgiving Sounds, Reflective Letters, and the Boom of a French 75
Thanksgiving Sounds, Reflective Letters, and the Boom of a French 75...
Batched Crime, Artichoked Cocktails, Bar Poem
Crime fiction. Artichokes. Thanksgiving poem about a bar....
Crypto Pigs, LinkedIn for Prison, and the Spinners
Pig butchering, batching cocktails, and the Spinners....