The Dead Don't Care is the wildest - and most inebriated - entry in the Bill Crane series, and therefore my favorite. I raved abo...

I just read this book again, for the third or fourth time, and it was laugh out loud funny. Again. Can't say the same for the movie...

Here's a mystery for you: Why would the studio think a title as bland and generic as THE WESTLAND CASE would fill more seats than H...

After sitting on this book for more than thirty years, thinking it was kind of cool to have an unread Jonathan Latimer on hand, I finall...

It took me a long time to reread and review all five books in the Bill Crane series. Not because I'm a slow reader (though I suppos...

Peter Lorre introduces this episode of Mystery Playhouse from May 15, 1945. I'd rather see the 1938 movie, but this rado version is ...

This fourth volume in Latimer's Bill Crane series is clever, funny, irreverent, sharply written and soaked in alcohol, which is to s...

Last Friday's Forgotten Book was Jonathan Latimer's 1935 novel Headed for a Hearse ( HERE ). The book seemed custom made for a ...