by Matthew Porter | Mar 25, 2023 | Article, Mystery Minute
by ZJ Czupor He Wrote Big Novels About Complicated Lives From his early days as a gag writer for the most popular radio show of the 1930s, to a stint in the Navy after Pearl Harbor, this internationally bestselling and award-winning author earned fame and fortune for...
by Matthew Porter | Mar 25, 2023 | Article, Mystery Minute
by ZJ Czupor In Honor of Valentine’s Day: A Mystery Writing Couple This couple wrote acclaimed and award-winning mysteries. But not together. In 1978, before they married, William L. DeAndrea’s first mystery novel, Killed in the Ratings, won him an Edgar award for...
by Matthew Porter | Mar 25, 2023 | Article, Mystery Minute
by ZJ Czupor The Mysterious Demise of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a genius in poetry and prose and only lived to the age of forty. While living and in death, he has had a profound impact on literature as an editor, poet, short story writer,...
by Matthew Porter | Nov 25, 2022 | Article, Mystery Minute
by ZJ Czupor She Won the Edgar and Didn’t Know What it Was 1946 was a seminal year. It was the beginning of the Baby Boomer Generation. Harry Truman was our president. Not unlike today, people worried about major shortages in jobs and shortages in housing, especially...
by Matthew Porter | Nov 25, 2022 | Article, Mystery Minute
by ZJ Czupor The Father of American Literature When I was in grade school, at Halloween time, our teacher would read to us The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1819) by Washington Irving (1783-1859). To this day, I still find it frightening to think of a black and towering...
by Matthew Porter | Aug 20, 2022 | Article, Mystery Minute
by ZJ Czupor Fame, Fortune, and Misfortune In the 1970s, he was the most popular read and critically acclaimed novelist. Literary critics considered him the heir apparent to Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) and Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) and critics included him in the...
