That got your attention, didn’t it? I think that was the intention of Judith Crist’s publishers when they named this 1968 collection of her movie reviews THE PRIVATE EYE, THE COWBOY AND THE VERY NAKED GIRL. Since I was ~mumblety mumblety~ in 1968, I’m enjoying…

The full story appears in my short-story collection, LONNIE, ME AND THE HOUND OF HELL. Here’s the beginning: THE DAMNED PLACE WAS FULL OF CROCODILES (excerpt) by Marian Allen The river teemed with them. They were the true, traditional Crocodylus niloticus, or Nile Crocodile, not…

Pel Darzin, the cop in FORCE OF HABIT and “By the Book“, was scheduled to be interviewed today on Paula’s Coppers, but that post isn’t live as of this writing (10:12 EDT). Many other fictional ‘tecs have already been interviewed there, though, so I recommend…