Hush-Hush
James Ellroy was only a kid in the 1950s when he started to read the infamous tabloid scandal rags of the age: Confidential, Lowdown, Rave, and Whisper to name just a few. These publications were...
View ArticleFred Otash – Private Eye to the Stars
I have just finished reading Investigation Hollywood! (1976), the memoirs of Fred Otash, Hollywood’s most famous Private Detective. Throughout the 1950s and 60s– when Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer, Lew...
View ArticleTabloid Journalism Hush-Hush Style
I was in the U.S. when the News of the World released its final edition, and the ongoing scandal has inspired me to reread some of James Ellroy’s work on tabloid journalism in his historical fiction....
View Article50 Different Words for Murder: Crime Writers on their Translated Works
As the author of Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Barry Forshaw was the perfect moderator for a panel on translation which featured two of the most successful Swedish...
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