Thank you note from Palm Springs After six years and more than 650 posts, the Life Death And Fog blog will become inactive – available ...

Readers of my “Deets Shanahan series may be disappointed in my new Peter Strand  private eye series. I understand. Deets is 72-year-old cur...

As I may have suggested a couple of posts ago , Orson Welles could be the poster boy for American film noir. Personally I would only go so f...

Authors live and die by the reviews. I have been blessed by the attention over the years.  And I thank the highly educated, overworked and o...

Much like parents and their children, writers aren’t supposed to have favorites among the books they’ve written.   I do have favorites, but ...

The 1940s seemed to be the best years of film noir. Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Sterling Hayden, and Richard Widmark we...