“Michael Mann’s Systemic Evolution: Public Enemies” by Anees Aref

RETROSPECTIVE: “Systemic evolution is a theme Mann explores not only in the historical Public Enemies, but in his prior crime drama Miami Vice (2006), where present-day detectives track drug cartels on a fast moving, transnational scale, and in his subsequent work Blackhat (2015), a cyber-crime thriller where crime has moved beyond the physical and into the digital realm of computer hackers and the global infrastructures they target.”

“‘Lots of Secrets’: from The Killing of Chuy Muro” by Lance Mason

NOVEL EXCERPT: “As I ducked my head below the roofline, the driver, Chuy Muro, pulled a cut-down 12-gauge from a clip under the dash, launching butterflies in my stomach the size of fruit bats. When he laid the shotgun down on the passenger seat, I let out my breath, hoping I was off the hook….”

“The Maltese Falcon Returns, as a Sequel and a Replica of the 1943 Enlisted Edition” by William Blick

BOOK REVIEW: “Mystery Writers Grandmaster Max Allan Collins Publishes a Sequel with Hard Case Crime, while Field Notes Offers a Replica of the 1943 Enlisted Issue of Hammett….”

Channel Academic Publishing Launches as a Scholarly Imprint of BearManor Media, Featuring Crime Classics Series

BLOGS: Channel Academic features the book series Crime Classics, shorter monographs on single titles featuring the theme in film, television, fiction, and other media, with a close study of the work’s importance to genre and the history of its media form…Debut title: Kiss Me Deadly by Woody Haut….

“‘A Scream Pulled Me from Sleep’: Eric Pankey’s The History of the Siege” by Charles Rammelkamp

BOOK REVIEW: “Profound, obscure, and a thorough delight to read for its thought-provoking allusions. And if you think you are lost in the language, pay heed to his gentle reminder….”