Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 11/01/12 (21 page)

 
Chad de Lisle of the
NoirWHALE
site (
noirwhale.com
) says that his
"fascination [with all things noir] extends through film noir (both vintage and
contemporary), noir-themed music, video games, femme fatales, smoldering
cigarettes and slimy plot lines." De Lisle's site is one of those with lots of
material for browsing, so allow yourself some time. He's even brave enough to
offer a definition of noir. Some of his current posts include a discussion of
the noir art of Glen Orbik, with lots of illustrative material; commentary on
Jean Luc Godard's
Breathless;
and a review of a noir comic,
Max
Payne: After the Fall.
You'll also find some noir music and a noir
quote of the week. This is a good-looking site and one even people who aren't
noir enthusiasts will enjoy.

Pulp Flakes
(
pulpflakes.blogspot.com/
) is a brand-new blog about
material straight from the flaking pages of the pulp magazines, specifically the
"authors and their stories. Adventure and Detective pulps." If you have an
interest in authors like Talbot Mundy, B.M. Bower, and Paul Hosmer and would
like to read about them or to read some of their work,
Pulp Flakes
is
the place to go.

Those of you who frequented the paperback racks in the 1970s and 1980s will no
doubt recall some of the dozens (or was it hundreds?) of books in the subgenre
that Brad Mengel writes about on
The Serial Vigilante Blog
(
my.opera.com/AggressorBrad1
), books with protagonists like
the Avenger, the Black Samurai, the Hell-Rider, the Death Merchant, and so on
and on. These are some of the series that Mengel discusses, but he goes to
places you might not expect with his comments on the Watchmen. He has a nice
photo section, too, with book covers and movie material. Check it out.

Judy Alter is a Texan and an award-winning author of Western fiction, with sixty
or so books to her credit. She also writes mysteries about Kelly O'Connell, a
real estate agent who finds herself stumbling over bodies. Alter's blog is
Judy's Stew
(
judys-stew.blogspot.com/
). It's a personal blog rather
than a review site. Sometimes Alter talks about her writing ("That Awful First
Page") and sometimes about other things, like dogs and book signings and her
family. Whatever the topic, Alter's always engaging and worth your reading
time.

Copyright © 2012 by Bill Crider

Bill Crider is the author of
The Blacklin County Files,
a
short-story collection available for Kindle.

 
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