The Cop Who Liked Gilbert and Sullivan wins!

Wonderful news: "The Cop Who Liked Gilbert and Sullivan" is the winner of the 2018 Derringer Award for Best Short Mystery Story!

The Red Envelope on Amazon

My "The Red Envelope" won the Black Orchid Novella Award in 2012 and it was published in Alfred HItchcock's Mystery Magazine the following summer.  James Lincoln Warren was kind enough to set it up in a Kindle-friendly format for me, but lazy me, I didn't put it up on Amazon until yesterday.  Now the world can read it for 99 cents.

Shanks on Crime published in Japan

My collection of short stories, Shanks on Crime, has just been published in Japan.  According to the automatic translator, the new title is Sunday Afternoon Tea With Mystery Writer.  If you look closely you can see the English title on the page as well.  Cool!

The publisher is Tokyo Sogen.

Plainfield, New Jersey on Youtube

I wrote a song about my home town   Here it is on Youtube.