克蕾格·莱斯(1908-1957)，一九○八年六月五日，克蕾格·莱斯生于芝加哥，本名是乔治安娜·安·伦道夫·克蕾格(Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig)，她是艺术家、广告代理商，也是推理小说家。除了阿加莎。克里斯蒂，莱斯是唯一一位在全美妇孺皆知的推理女作家。 因为酗酒，莱斯四十九岁便早逝，短暂的一生犹如划过夜空的流星。

Artist Rob Pudim has been shortlisted for the 2002 Arty, given for the best cover for a comic mystery published in 2002. The winner will be announced at Left Coast Crime in Pasadena in March 2003.

His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he'd been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity's offices. To the cops, it looked like a robbery gone sour. To Kinsey Millho...(展开全部)

Revered by his peers and idolised by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy rich in artistic genius. Mesmerising on stage but introverted and prone to desperate mood swings in his private life, Curtis died by his own hand on 18 May 1980. Touching from a Distance documents how, with a wife, child and impending international fame, Curtis was seduced by the glory of an early gr...(展开全部)

Revered by his peers and idolised by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy rich in artistic genius. Mesmerising on stage but introverted and prone to desperate mood swings in his private life, Curtis died by his own hand on 18 May 1980. Touching from a Distance documents how, with a wife, child and impending international fame, Curtis was seduced by the glory of an early gr...(展开全部)

Who are the men committing the rising number of serial homicides in the U.S. -- and why do they kill? The increase in these violent crimes over the past decade has created an urgent need for more and better information about these men: their crime scene patterns, violent acts, and above all, their motivations for committing these shocking and repetitive murders. This authoritat...(展开全部)

From the creator of HBO's "The Wire," the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television showThe scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possib...(展开全部)

大卫·西蒙（David Simon），美国著名电视剧监制、编剧及作家。前《巴尔的摩太阳报》记者。他的纪实作品《凶年》荣获1992年度爱伦·坡最佳真实罪案奖。根据《凶年》改编的《凶案组：街头生活》和《火线》都成为了经典剧集，被誉为美剧黄金时代的代表作，彰显了美剧在文学性及社会批评方面的可能性。