Devil Drink, Monkees Suit, Crime Fiction
Monkees, booze, FBI....
Christmas Groovin’ Booze & Books
Pleasures of Advent and Christmas....
2018 Crime Fiction, Booze and Music
A Christmas roundup of crime fiction, booze and music. BOOKS. A little late for Christmas, but why give them away? Read them yourself. From The...
Okay, So It’s A Lurid Book Cover: Summer Weekend Cocktails, Dylan Thomas on YouTube, Good Writing and Great Music
Our notes for Friday, beginning with cocktails; moving through literature; ending with music. Brown Whisky Is Not Just For Winter. From the New York Times,...
The Rap Sheet, True Crime and White Collar Wire
We are honored to be added as a “True Crime” blog by The Rap Sheet, one of the world’s leading crime-fiction blogs: Since it spun off...
Red Harvest: Crime Fiction and Gospel Conviction
Pop culture and theology mix fruitfully in pulp-crime fiction. Here’s a four-part course from 2012: Red Harvest: Crime Fiction and Gospel Conviction . Here’s the blurb...
Criminals In Ties: Contract Law and Reservoir Dogs
The interplay between law — especially criminal law — and theology is more subterranean and nuanced than many give it credit for. The same is...
John D. MacDonald and King Saul
We worked John D. MacDonald’s private eye, Travis McGee, into this discussion of King Saul and the young David: Spare the King and Seize the...
George V. Higgins and the Archeology of White-Collar Crime
In popular culture, business-crime is presented cartoon-fashion. In movies, on television or in novels, businesspeople who are corporate targets of government investigations come across as...
Why’d He Do It?
Here’s a note from Professor Ellen Podgor about an article on Sentencing the Why of White Collar Crime by Todd Haugh (Illinois Institute of Technology...