All Due Respect Issue #3

That's right--we've got another dose of goodness and badness for all the crime fiction people out there. ADR 3 one features one of my favorite authors, Jake Hinkson, whose has a new book from Crime Factory titled Saint Homicide. Plus fiction by Angel Luis Colon, Patti Abbott, Jessica Adams, Mike McCrary, Chris Leek, Rob Hart, Alec Cizak, and Jen Conley. And an interview with BEAT to a PULP publisher David Cranmer. And a whole bunch of reviews. --Chris Rhatigan

Modern Cowboys

I'm at Criminal Element with Kickin’ Ass Like It’s 1880: Ten Modern Cowboys. As always, I sure could use your support over there with some comments.

The Tyger

Painter, poet, and printmaker William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) is known for his unconventional views through his poems and other writings, though he remained relatively unknown during his time. "The Tyger" was first published in Songs of Experience (1794) which was eventually combined with his Songs of Innocence (1789) into one title—Songs of Innocence and Experience, showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: the author and printer, W. Blake.

In 2002, Blake was number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.

Here's Copy A of Blake's original printing of The Tyger, c. 1795 at The Fall Creek Review.

In the Garden

 

Tulips in bloom at Pluvial Gardens, May 2014.
Photo by Meta L. Knapp

Wide Spot in the Road by Wayne D. Dundee

Vagabond P.I. Jack Laramie stops in the remote town of Buele’s Corner for a bite to eat. Before he finishes his bowl of chili, he gets caught up in a tornado of events that starts with a panicked, young couple racing into the diner to use the phone to call for help—a menacing motorcycle gang, The Deguelloes, is chasing after them. When the couple discovers the phone is out of order, Jack steps in to help them fend off the gang who’s accusing the couple of running some of their fellow bikers off the road.

Wide Spot in the Road is the fourth novella in The Drifter Detective series, following on the heels of The Girls of Bunker Pines, Hell Up in Houston, and the eponymous debut, The Drifter Detective.

Wayne's thoughts on Wide Spot in the Road here.

Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of The Weird West

I'm reviewing Dead Man's Hand edited by John Joseph Adams at Criminal Element.

Superman

Jake Hinkson talks Superman films at The Fall Creek Review.

Praise Be

I may read Pulp Fiction That's Damned Hard to Beat a few more times and then frame it. Damn nice of Mr. Wallace.

All My Earps

I'm at Criminal Element with All My Earps: The Many Film Faces of Wyatt Earp.

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A poem from Keith Rawson is at The Fall Creek Review.