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ng as border agents for homeland security the main action concerns the discovery that one of their confidential informers a woman working with a very dangerous group of mexican smugglers has been found dead but don t assume you know where the plot is going the actual direction is hidden in the background august has so carefully laid out for you posted by robert lopresti at 2 00 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 august elm books sunday july 13 2014 murder on orchard road by nury vittachi murder on orchard road by nury vittachi in singapore noir edited by cheryl lu tien tan akashic press 2014 the term political correctness or pc has become an epithet it is seen as a form of censorship or advocacy of wimpiness wasn t always that way as i recall someone asked the folksinger fred small if he was ever not pc he replied do you mean am i ever intentionally rude i bring this up because most of the stories in singapore noir use dialect by which i mean attempting to indicate on the page the non standard language and pronunciation of the characters dialect has been out of favor for a long time for a lot of good reasons it can be amazingly annoying to read and it can seem insulting to the people whose language is being mimicked on the other hand a lot of the people in these stories set in singapore are not going to speak like they went to harvard or oxford what s an author to do the usual thinking these days is that less is more put in just enough dialect to indicate the speech patterns without driving the ready crazy by the way if you want to hear my attempt at a dialect story here is a free podcast mr vittachi s is about an older chinese may named c f wong and here is one of his longer speeches slow race no good makes bad tv sponsors very angry race organizer very angry gives you a sense of how wong speaks whether it accurately reflects chinese speech in singapore is beyond me and i suppose that tells you a bit of what the story is about but there is more here is the opening his new year s resolution was to give up murders murders were horrible messy smelly difficult heart rending things and not nearly as profitable as they used to be mr wong is a feng shui master and his specialty has been spiritually cleansing murder scenes but today he hopes to only deal with a car race which as you see above seems to be going wrong and then there is the case of the food taster accused of poisoning his clients not noir but entertaining posted by robert lopresti at 10 17 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 akashic vittachi sunday july 6 2014 aix to grind by robert mangeot aix to grind by robert mangeot in alfred hitchcock s mystery magazine september 2011 the narrator and his partner gus are in france in the market for cheese not cheese really that s just what they call the artworks they steal from dairies dairies are what they call private art collections but this time the narrator wants to rob a factory which is what they call museums oh never mind the point is this is a very witty cleverly plotted story about a burglary just remember ne vous fiez pas n importe qui posted by robert lopresti at 11 07 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 ahmm mangeot sunday june 29 2014 it ll cost you by neil schofield it ll cost you by neil schofield in alfred hitchcock s mystery magazine september 2014 lawrence block once wrote that a story must have a beginning a middle and an end but not necessarily in that order the current fashion is to start as far into the action as you can and then explain what went before in flashbacks but what about starting at the end i don t mean telling the story in reverse like for example the movie betrayal no i am thinking of stories that begin by revealing how they will end and then jump to the start two more classic movies come to mind sunset boulevard and american beauty both of which start with the narrator informing you that he gets killed and one of them still manages to provide a surprise ending my friend neil schofield has provided a witty and very clever story of this type georgie hopcraft starts out by cheerfully telling us that he is in prison and his cell mate is another murderer which is a little misleading because georgie has been convicted of a murder he did not commit then why is he so cheerful well it has to do with that cell mate and i will leave it at that but georgie goes on to explain the whole story he was a somewhat shady owner of a slightly better class second and bric a brac shop in london but when his soon to be ex wife was dissatisfied with the upcoming settlement she found a way to get him framed into prison and we get to watch the whole framing process and yet georgie remains cheerful hmm this leads us to spoiler alert this story is oddly enough a fair play mystery that usually means the reader has all the clues needed to figure out the identity of the murderer in this story that is a given but you have all the clues to figure out how georgie will prove he didn t do it posted by robert lopresti at 7 41 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 ahmm schofield sunday june 22 2014 crimes of passion by michael guillebeau crimes of passion by michael guillebeau in ellery queen s mystery magazine august 2014 so when is a stereotype okay in writing i don t mean an offensive racial or whatever stereotype i mean a character who is so perfectly a type that you know what they are going to do before they do i guess as usual the answer is it s okay when it works guillebeau s story is full of characters like this within a few pages you can predict not precisely what will happen but who will end up with the dirty end of the stick and who will walk away clean as artisan soap josh is a poor boy who lives in the florida panhandle poor is the keyword because his family s shack is between two mansions where his best friends live those over privileged entitled friends waylon and the just blooming melody are the main cliches in the story as it begins the three of them find a dead body in the water waylon finds a stack of money in the man s coat and promptly takes it josh the thoughtful member of the three has to decide whether to go along with this or tell the truth and everything that follows is as inevitable as a greek tragedy writ small apparently guillebeau has a novel about the same character josh somebody might be worth a look see posted by robert lopresti at 10 49 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 eqmm guillebeau sunday june 15 2014 the plow guy by brendan dubois the plow guy by brendan dubois in alfred hitchcock s mystery magazine july august 2014 henry conway has a somewhat eccentric plan for his retirement he wants to move to a small town in new hampshire buy a dog for company and plow people s driveways seems easy enough but he runs into a couple of problems especially a man who beats his wife a problem henry isn t willing to ignore but henry has an interesting skill set did i mention what work he retired from neither does he exactly i chose my retirement home like i was planning for an overseas op oops i meant to say setting up a budget spreadsheet or a request for proposals or something innocent like that oddly enough i enjoyed the story more before the inevitable conflict came along henry is an interesting fellow and honestly the bad guy just wasn t enough of a challenge for him but the writing is lovely posted by robert lopresti at 10 38 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 ahmm dubois sunday june 8 2014 mary s shallow grave by phillip depoy mary s shallow grave by phillip depoy in alfred hitchcock s mystery magazine july august 2014 if i am reading the editor s note correctly this is intended to be the first in a series i look forward to the next it s 1975 and the state of florida has hired our narrator foggy to operate child protective services for the whole state i hope not and he shows up at the bar with the unprepossessing name that gives the story it s title to tell the cook that his ex wife in in a coma her boyfriend is dead and his eleven year old daughter is on the run that part of florida had always been to me the land of people who gave up they piled empty cardboard boxes on the front porch rolled the broken fridge out onto the lawn always thought it was too hot to paint the house and the flies didn t come in if you just put a piece of plastic over that tear in the screen maybe it was the heat even in october they could get days in the nineties there is stolen money crooked cops a wealthy indian with nefarious plans and a bunch of people using assorted ill advised self medication plans if there is any hope for an eleven year old girl in this mess it is going to have to be carved out of extra legal maneuvers and deals with assorted devils fortunately foggy is up to the challenge posted by robert lopresti at 7 46 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 ahmm depoy sunday june 1 2014 when i m famous by dara carr when i m famous by dara carr in ellery queen s mystery magazine june 2014 this is the best first story i have read in some time clever setting williamsburg brooklyn among the hipsters exhibit a is our narrator mindy she is she tells us a visual person she has a make believe boyfriend marcus who phones her late at night for booty calls and she always goes over one might diagnose low self esteem here s another example when mindy spots a beautiful woman at a party a wallpaper artist she writes brooklyn royalty and she knows it the men twitching like they ve been tased the female viewers emitting a soft electric hum brains working hard calculating the age they were when they could have last worn shorts that length in public let alone to a party beaches don t count age seven would be my answer that s good writing pretty soon the wallpaper artist is dead and there is no shortage of suspects in fact they show up one after another like city buses but before i go here is one more line from our heroine one of the less commonly reported dangers of chronic marijuana use is buying decrepid old houses and thinking you can fix them up posted by robert lopresti at 7 43 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday may 25 2014 hooch by bill pronzini hooch by bill pronzini in ellery queen s mystery magazine june 2014 i know i have said this before and after you blog for a few years you suspect you have said everything before the best endings are surprises that feel inevitable you want the reader to say i never saw it coming but that was the only way the story could end and that my friends ain t easy pronzini s story is about some thugs smuggling booze in from canada during prohibition two of them are hardened criminals the third one bennie is a bright eyed youngster who got everything he knows about crime from places like black mask magazine in fact he tells his colleagues cheerfully he s writing a novel about the rum running business all fictionalized of course nothing for them to wrory about well you can see where this story is heading can t you but there is a twist along the way one that made me say that s the only way the story could end posted by robert lopresti at 9 31 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 eqmm pronzini sunday may 18 2014 splitting adams by percy spurlock parker splitting adams by percy spurlark parker in ellery queen s mystery magazine july 2014 terry adams is a very unhappy man he s not good with women and he blames it on his big brother jerry jerry is slick and smooth and always moves in on terry when he is trying to get started with a new lady it has just happened again and terry well terry is about to lose it a clever piece of flash fiction posted by robert lopresti at 8 53 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 eqmm parker wednesday may 14 2014 second sight unseen by richard helms second sight unseen by richard helms in ellery queen s mystery magazine july 2014 helms offers us what is intended to be the first in a series of stories the concept here isn t new hey sherlock holmes wasn t the first genius detective either but the characters are intersting and the writing is amusing the narrator is boy boatwright a cop who should have retired but is living on booze and adrenalin when the story starts he is waking up with his face on the toilet rim but the hero for lack of a better word is the remarkably named bowie crapster crapster is five and a half feet tall with a figure like a bradford pear he dresses in flashy clothes and looked like the vanguard of a midget elvis parade crapster claims to be a psychic detective but he graciously gives the cops all the credit for his work he just wants the reward money boatwright loathes him but the fact is he is a pretty shrewd sleuth in this case he deals with the apparent kidnapping of the young heir to a wealthy family will he solve it will he drive boatwright back to the booze some days it just doesn t pay to get up out of the toilet posted by robert lopresti at 9 39 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 eqmm helms sunday may 11 2014 little big delay today s review will be a few days late to make it up to you here is a webpage where you can find free links to two of my own stories one of them brand new posted by robert lopresti at 12 30 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday may 4 2014 anchor baby by shauna washington anchor baby by shauna washington in alfred hitchcock s mystery magazine may 2014 write what you know so shauna washington a las vegas based fashion stylist writes about stacey deshay a las vegas based fashin stylist it s so crazy it just might work and it works fine in this caper in which stacey makes a special trip to arizona to deliver a client s maid and baby to the mansion of the client s soon to be ex husband she gets their just in time to witness a murder and after that things get worse best thing about this story is the writing first person narrator is character it was a long time since i d traveled this far on a job but since the recession hit my new motto was go where the money is since it sure isn t coming to me posted by robert lopresti at 10 49 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 ahmm washington sunday april 27 2014 international vogue and the pajama fiasco weekend by rosalind barden international vogue and the pajama fiasco weekend by rosalind barden in mardi gras 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