The Victim Was Important (1955)

The Victim Was Important, by “Joe Rayter,” aka Mary Fuller McChesney (Pocket, 1955).

A Medium for Murder (1980)

A Medium for Murder, by Mignon Warner (1980), the premiere entry in her series starring clairvoyant Edwina Charles. Released as part of Dell Books’ Murder Ink/Scene of the Crime series, with front- and back-cover art by John Melo.

Left Coast Crime’s 2026 Guests of Honor

Guest of Honor Robin Burcell with her Maltese Falcon statuette from the 2026 Left Coast Crime convention in San Francisco. (Photograph by Ian Klier.)

W.R. Burnett’s Obituary

From The New York Times, April 29, 1982.

Morris Markey’s Obituary

From The New York Times, July 12, 1950. Link to paywalled version here.

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald posing for Hearst's International Magazine, May 1923. Photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston. According to a post on Tumblr, “Zelda called it her ‘Elizabeth Arden face’ and pasted it in her scrapbook.”

Zelda Fitzgerald, 1920

Army Girl, by Whit Harrison (1953)

Army Girl, by “Whit Harrison,” aka Harry Whittington, published by Venus Books in 1953. Cover illustration by Rudolph Belarki.

Our Last Breakfast, September 8

We made one final stop at the Ruby Slipper on Magazine Street, in New Orleans, before saying good-bye to Bouchercon 2025 and heading back to our regular lives. Clockwise from left to right, we see here Mike Stotter, Ali Karim, J. Kingston Pierce, and the waitress who’d been so patient with us. Fortunately, we were big tippers.

Dennis Pozzessere and Ali Karim, Bouchercon 2025