(These photographs were taken from the internet.)The following is a reprint of an article I wrote for the Noose, the newsletter for Mystery Writers of America. INSIDE SCOTLAND YARDSecuring order, preventing crime and the detection and punishment of offenders, if…
Our visitor from California is still here and we’re seeing the sights of New York like we were tourists, too. But that’s a good thing and I’ve included a few picture from the stroll we took on the Westside and…
A friend, Alan Holland, has come for a 9 day stay. He’s from California. He got in last last night and we decided to pick up a few groceries at Fairway. He’s a real camera buff and so we both…
(This was written several years ago after a Mystery Writers of America fieldtrip to Sing Sing.)Sing Sing is the only prison bisected by railroad tracks, and a few minutes before our Metro North Train pulled into the Ossening station, we…
The sign with Edgar A. Poe’s signature is on the fence outside of Poe Park located on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. The house is called the Poe Cottage and is where he lived for a short while with…
A TRIBUTE TO POE (This article I wrote for the Bronx Times on October 21, 1999 and it also appeared in The Noose, the newsletter for Mystery Writers in America.) In 1841 Poe published “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”…