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Kuratierte Notizen & Neuigkeiten zur Kriminalliteratur | A sheet of notes & news about crime fiction

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Parker’s Rules

  • Don’t ever show a gun to a man you don’t want to kill.
  • Don’t talk to the law.
  • Always split the money fair.
  • Each man for himself.
  • Don’t kill somebody unless you have to. It puts the law on you like nothing else.
  • Never leave a guy alive who’d like to see you dead.
  • Don’t let yourself be framed in a lit doorway.
  • Don’t meet in a town where you’re going to make a hit.
  • Don’t stay in the hotel where you’re going to make a hit.
  • Don’t take a job on consignment.
  • Don’t work with anyone you can’t trust or don’t respect.
  • When there’s no place to hide, stay where you are.
  • Any job that requires more than five guys to be pulled can’t be pulled.
  • For a big enough score, any rule can be broken.

So some guys are not into lists. But I think this one is important – not only for crime fiction readers: Parker’s fourteen Rules. Read, learn, follow – at 50 Years of Parker, dedicated to Richard Stark‘s hero and published by the University of Chicago Press. Thanks, guys!

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Down in the Hole: The unwired world of H.B. Ogden

»Difficult. Tangled. Funny, dark, and, once, almost forgotten. The Wire, Horatio B. Ogden’s novel about the crime-ridden streets of ‘Bodymore’ was recently brought back to public light through the work of Joy DeLyria and Sean Michael Robinson.«

In den USA erscheint heute ein Buch, das für Fans der TV-Serie The Wire interessant sein dürfte. Sean Michael Robinson und Joy DeLyria haben sich mit dem Werk von Horatio Bucklesby Ogden beschäftigt, der eine viktorianische Fortsetzungsgeschichte Wire verfasst hat. Unter dem Titel Down in the Hole: The unWired World of H.B. Ogden erscheint nun eine Zusammenstellung der Texte und Illustrationen. Somit dürfte wohl klar sein: The Wire ist keine Erfindung des modernen Fernsehens, es ist eine viktorianische Geschichte.

Und wer das jetzt nicht glaubt, der folge hier bei den Krimi-Depeschen den Links zu den Beweisen:

»Of course most writers are voyeurs too, and I certainly am, so the more I dug my feet into those trenches, I saw the same power machinations occurring within the elite group of girls as I’d experienced from the outside.«

Laura Lippman talked with Megan Abbott about her new novel Dare Me. Read the interview at mulhollandbooks.com.


“Nobody concludes a novel quite the way Mo Hayder does: with a revelation that leaves the reader staring at the page, poleaxed, willing more words to appear or flicking back to see just how she did it.”

Anna Mundow reviews the new thriller Hanging Hill by Mo Hayder. Her “Barnes & Nobles”-Review can be read at salon.com.