Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 11, 2020

It's time again for Crime Fiction Links of the Week, our weekly round-up of interesting links about crime fiction from around the web, this week with the new Perry Mason, The Old Guard, Snowpiercer, Greyhound, the latest event cancellations and virtual events due to the corona virus and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
• Lesa Holstine shares her favourite mystery and crime novels of 2020 so far. 
• Gary Phillips shares his favourite classic crime novels.
• Julia Spiro shares seven crime novels told from the POV of domestic workers. 
• Jeffrey B. Burton talks about his love for domestic thrillers. 
• Kristen Lepionka, Layne Fargo and Wendy Heard talks about strong female characters in crime fiction.
• Kristen Lepionka shares a brief history of lesbian woman detectives in crime fiction. 
• Timothy Jay Smith explains how he wrote thrillers with gay protagonists and was surprised to find that a large part of his readership was female.
• John Fram explains how the mysteries of Barbara Vine helped him during his youth as a gay young man in small town Texas. 
• Dorothy Gambrell analyses who did what in every Agatha Christie novel.
• Olivia Rutigliano chronicles Dashiell Hammett's run-in with Communist hunters in 1951.  
• Camilla Lackberg shares her favourite romance novels of the 1980s.
• Jay Stringer declares that genre labels are meaningless, but fun to discuss.  
• Rhiannon Lucy Cossett reports about the latest death of the novel, this time due to female writers writing books that old white men do not care for.
  
• Radha Vatsal reports about a picture book biography of Agatha Christie in the Little People, Big Dreams series of biographies of important historical figures.
• Alison Flood reports that crime fiction sales are booming during the corona virus pandemic.
• The BBC reports that several Harry Potter fansites have distanced themselves from J.K. Rowling a.k.a. Robert Galbraith because of her transphobic remarks. 
• Several prominent writers and scholars have posted an open letter, complaining about cancel culture.
• Timothy the Talking Cat also speaks out against cancel culture.

Film and TV:

• Lucy Mangan calls The Secrets She Keeps a predictable guilty pleasure thriller. 
• Ellen E. Jones declares that I Am Vengeance: Retaliation displays a lot of passion for moviemaking, even if the result is a not very good action film.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the Harlan Coben adaptation The Five.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on season 2 of Hanna. 
• Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  
• BOLO Books shares their thoughts on Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. 
• Ashley Ray-Harris shares her thoughts on the latest episode of I May Destroy You.
• Claire Danes and Damien Lewis, stars of Homeland, interview each other.
• Cameron Scheetz interviews Danny Trejo, star of Machete. 
• Phil Hoad rewatches the 1945 noir movie Detour. 
• K.A. Laity revisits the 1945 noir movie The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry.
• Otto Penzler rewatches the 1949 gangster film White Heat. 
• Eric Adams revisits the 1985 crime comedy Clue.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1997 British mystery series Jonathan Creek.
• Alex Hess rewatches the 1998 gangster film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, his favourite film aged 12. 
• Emily Temple shares Hilary Mantel's 1988 review of RoboCop.  
• David Klass asks if the best adaptations keep the author at arm's length.
• Alex Cox talks about the difficulties of shooting movies under the new corona protection rules. 
• Andrew Pulver reports that Hollywood stars shooting in the UK will be exempt from the UK's quarantine rules 
• Joe Otterson reports that actress Javicia Leslie has been cast as the new series lead of Batwoman, following the departure of Ruby Rose. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that actress Jodie Comer, best known for playing Villanelle in Killing Eve, is under fire, because her boyfriend is a Trump supporter.
• Actor Nick Cordero has died of complications of the corona virus aged 41.   
• Legendary film composer Ennio Moricone has died aged 92. 
• Robert D. McFadden remembers Ennio Moricone.
• Actor Earl Cameron, best known for his appearances in Thunderball, Doctor Who, The Prisoner. Sapphire, Pool of London and Good Omens, has died aged 102.
• Andrew Pulver remembers Earl Cameron.
  

Comments on the new Perry Mason:

• Allison Shoemaker shares her thoughts on the latest episode of the new Perry Mason.
• Matthew Dessem explains which historical figure the character of Sister Alice in the new Perry Mason is based upon.

Comments on The Old Guard:

• Anya Stanley calls The Old Guard a thoughtful action fantasy hybrid. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls The Old Guard a forgettable thriller with a silly premise.
• Ellen E. Jones interviews Gina Prince-Bythewood, director of The Old Guard.

Comments on Snowpiercer:

• Emma Fraser discusses the depiction of crime and punishment in Snowpiercer.
• Kayla Kumari Upadyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Snowpiercer.

Comments on Greyhound:

• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calls Greyhound a compelling nautical thriller.
• Peter Bradshaw calls Greyhound an intense and poignant WWII nautical drama.
  

Awards:

• The winners of the 2020 CrimeFest Awards have been announced.
• The winner of the 2020 Falcon Award has been announced.
• The winner of the 2020 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award has been announced.

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Michael R. Underwood talks about writing a novel based on his favourite tropes. 
• Owen Matthews talks about truth and historical fiction.  
• Elle Croft talks about the perfect place to set a crime novel. 
• Sheila Kohler talks about writing and researching her latest crime novel Open Secrets.
• V.B. Grey talks about the inspiration for her crime novel Tell Me How It Ends.
• G.J. Minnett talks about the inspiration behind his crime novel The Syndicate.
• Sherryl Clark talks about writers' day jobs.
• Dean Wesley Smith explains why he is opposed to traditional publishing.
• Cora Buhlert looks back on nine years of indie publishing.
• The SFWA reports that it is now possible to register the US copyright for several short works published online for a flat fee.
• Julian Mark reports that the owner of Borderlands Books in San Francisco, California, has been accused of sexual assault by his daughter and domestic abuse by his ex-partner.
• Mike Glyer also reports about the sexual assault allegations against the owner of Borderlands Books.
  

Interviews:

• Rick Pullen interviews Steve Berry.
• The Real Book Spy interviews Robert Bailey.
  
• The Qwillery interviews John Fram. 
  

Reviews:

• Lesa Holstine reviews Outsider by Linda Castillo. 
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee. 
• Thomas Pluck reviews Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Crosby.
• Nick Kolakowski reviews Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Crosby.
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Dark Waters by G.R. Halliday. 
• Marion Deeds reviews A Book of Bones by John Connolly.
• Michael Patrick Hicks reviews The Dirty South by John Connolly. 
• Louis Bravos reviews Tokyo Traffic by Michael Pronko. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Marah Chase and the Fountain of Youth by Jay Stringer. 
• Kirkus reviews The Bones of Wolfe by James Carlos Blake. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Shadows by Alex North.
• Kirkus reviews Spring Girls by Karen Katchur.
• Ray Palen reviews The Half Sister by Sandie Jones. 
• Gabino Iglesias reviews What's Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott. 
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Waiting Rooms by Eve Smith. 
• Read, Eat, Sleep, Repeat reviews The Last Flight by Julie Clark. 
• Sarah Ward reviews Quiet Acts of Violence by Cath Staincliffe.
• Janet Webb reviews The Dilemma by B.A. Paris.
• Material Witness reviews Remain Silent by Susie Steiner.
• Ray Palen reviews The Mist by Ragnar Jonasson.
• Beth Kanell reviews The Summer of Kim Novak by Hakan Nesser.
• Sandra Mangan reviews Fire on the Island by Timothy Jay Smith.
• Vicki Wiesfeld reviews The Part-Time Job by P.D. James. 
• Becky LeJeune reviews Home Before Dark by Riley Sager.
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Order by Daniel Silva. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews False Assurances by Christopher Rosow. 
• Mark Rose reviews Puppies for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone by Maurizio de Giovanni.
• Joy Kluver reviews Monstrous Souls by Rebecca Kelly.
  
• The Tattooed Book Geek reviews A House of Ghosts by W.C. Ryan. 
• John Valeri reviews Witch Hunt by Cate Conte.   
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Sprinkling of Murder by Daryl Wood Gerber and tries a recipe from the book.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Nacho Average Murder and tries a recipe from the book. 
• Kat Hooper reviews The Last Curtain Call by Juliet Blackwell.  
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Study in Murder by Callie Hutton.
  

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1931 Dr. Thorndyke mystery Pontifex, Son and Thorndyke by Austin Freeman.
• Harold Strauss shares his thoughts on the 1934 noir novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. 
• Andrew Nette revisits the 1939 noir novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase. 
• Joe R. Lansdale revisits the 1945 thriller The Red Right Hand by John Townsley Rogers. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1948 mystery Mind Your Own Murder by Yolanda Foldes.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1958 spy novel Death's Lovely Mask by John Flagg a.k.a. John Gearon.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1959 western Last Stand at Saber River by Elmore Leonard.
• Alan Cranis revisits the 1967 crime novels The Tease and Sin For Me by Gil Brewer. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1967 adventure novel The Hawk Alone by Jack Bennett.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1972 suspense novel Breath of Suspicion by Elizabeth Ferrars.
  

Con and event reports:

• The 2020 Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention in Lombard, Illinois has been cancelled due to the corona virus.  
• Killer Nashville in Nachville, Tennessee, has been cancelled due to the corona virus.
• Magna Cum Murder in Indianapolis, Indiana, has been permanently shut down, because they lost their venue to the corona virus.
• Mike Glyer reports that Ed Kramer, disgraced co-founder of DragonCon in Atlanta, Georgia, is sueing a judge candidate for libel after she called him a "convicted sex offender" in her campaign flyers.
  

Crowdfunding:

• Christianna Silver discusses how creators of boardgames are increasingly turning towards crowdfunding to finance their games.
  

Research:

• Ravi Somaiya discusses the mysterious death of UN Secretary General Dag Hammerskjöld.
• Jon Billman discusses how many people go missing in North America's wildlands every year and how people are searching for them.
• David Hill talks about the unlikely criminal history of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
• Andrew Higgins reports that Ivan Safronov, a former official at the Russian space agency Roscosmos, has been arrested for alleged espionage. 
• Rose Andersen discusses the suspicious overdose death of her younger sister.

Free online fiction:

• "Valley Girl" by Tom Anders in Shotgun Honey.
• "Trouble: Chunked, Covered and Country" by Scott Montgomery in Shotgun Honey.
• "Panic, Passion... Pancakes" by Mike Zone in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Count Me Out" by Bern Sy Moss in Mystery Tribune.
• "Don't Get Alone" by George Garnet in Mystery Tribune.
• "Why the River?" by Zach Murphy in Mystery Tribune.
• "Spent Casings" by Terry Dawley in The Five-Two.
• "Summer Wine" by K.A. Laity in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Making the World Liveable Again" by Beau Johnson in Punk Noir Magazine.
  

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for The Tax Collector.