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The Thrilling Detective Blog: May 2006

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The Thrilling Detective Blog. Monday, May 29, 2006. Write What You Don't Know, Damn It! In my recent mini-rant about one of my contributors from hell, Heidi (Hey, she's got her own planet, and she does a great web comic! How do you tell someone that their life sounded boring? And that's a very good question. Of course, often it's not the life that's boring - it's the writing. Oh, the synchronicity! Oh, the absolutely perfect suitabilty! Oh, the bullshit. Because when it's just you and a book, the real-li...

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The Thrilling Detective Blog: March 2006

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The Thrilling Detective Blog. Thursday, March 30, 2006. Care for a little cheese? Well, last Sunday was a pretty good day, overall. No word yet on whether her insurance company is insisting her next novel focus on stamp-collecting. I also finally met Diane Stewart, a close pal and fellow fan of crime writer John Shannon's Jack Liffey series, who gave me a tiny hint of what's to come in one of my favourite current private eye series. Colour me stoked. My haul included a handful of reasonably priced crime ...

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The Thrilling Detective Blog: November 2006

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The Thrilling Detective Blog. Thursday, November 16, 2006. That Freedom of Speech Thing. Now along comes something that really challenges my support of freedom of speech. Talk about squirm-inducing. All just in time for the holidays. Of course, O.J. was found not guilty, and there is freedom of speech in the U.S., so yes, he does have the right to say pretty much anything he wants. And Regan Books and FOX have the right to publish and broadcast pretty much anything they want. I still believe in it. His n...

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The Thrilling Detective Blog: September 2006

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The Thrilling Detective Blog. Thursday, September 28, 2006. We'll do the Madison Blues. Well, we made it. My tavelling companion, the Unsinkable D.L. Browne (AKA Diana Killian, AKA Mrs. Thrilling Detective, AKA "She") and I have finally made it to another BOUCHERCON. Together. I've done a Bloody Words or two solo, and she's done Malice, footloose and fancy free, but this is the first crime convention thing we've done together since, um, that ungodly mess in Vegas afew years ago. This is going to be a rec...

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The Thrilling Detective Web Site Table of Contents

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THE THRILLING DETECTIVE WEB SITE. Contributors, Regulars and Drive-Bys. Peter M. Bellani. Wayne D. Dundee. Allen J. Hubin. Brian D. Rubendall. James R. Winter. See also Staff Bios. The Thrilling Detective Web Site. Ublished by Kevin Burton Smith since April 1, 1998. Please send all review copies and promotional materials to:. The Thrilling Detective Web Site,. 3053 Rancho Vista Blvd., Suite 116. Palmdale, California, U.S.A., 93551. Or contact the editor via e-mail. It seems the POP! Have figurines of jus...

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Boston Blackie

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Created by Jack Boyle (1881-1928). Enemy to those who make him an enemy. Friend to those who have no friend. From the intro to the Boston Blackie. Is a rather peculiar character to include in this site as he wasn't a P.I. in his original incarntation at all, but a jewel thief and a safecracker. It was only later, in film, radio, and eventually television, that he morphed into a private eye. And The American Magazine. And in 1919 a collection, simply titled Boston Blackie. Metro), kicking off a string of ...

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The Thrilling Detective Blog: April 2006

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The Thrilling Detective Blog. Wednesday, April 05, 2006. My new cat has lymphoma". Yeah, maybe I'm just a sick puppy, but that's the deadpan dark, out-of-nowhere line that marked the point where I decided to just relax and have fun with HEIST, the new NBC caper show. It's uttered by a LAPD officer on the shooting range to the female detective (Michele Hicks) beside her, who's convinced a major robbery is about to take place somewhere in town. And she's right. And then I realized that what had appealed to...

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The Thrilling Detective Blog: January 2006

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The Thrilling Detective Blog. Sunday, January 29, 2006. I'm a man who likes to talk to a man (or woman) who likes to talk. By Gad but you are a character, sir. So how about letting the world know? From now on, you don't have to be a member to post a comment on the THRILLING DETECTIVE BLOG. Got that, Keith? The usual restrictions apply: no profanity, no spam, no off-topic rants, no BSP arseholes, etc. Anyone violating this policy will be held up to severe ridicule. Posted by Kevin Burton Smith at 1:09 PM.

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Just the FAQS, ma'am...

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Please do not ask me stupid questions that I've already answered. I appreciate comments and suggestions as much as the next web monkey, but I'm so tired of answering. Or the patience, in a few cases. When exactly were the words please and thank you outlawed, anyway? And what kind of. Or, worse,. So, from now on, I' may not answer any questions that contain:. All caps or all lower case. Requests for purchasing info on movies, radio or television episodes, books or comics. Sorry. Isn't that a bit dishonest?