C&C in July

In less than a month, my Substack newsletter Cocktails and Crime has racked up subscribers in the triple digits. Thanks to everyone who has signed up. If you haven’t, there’s no time like the present. Here’s what you’ve been missing.

1. Introductions

2. My look at Library of America’s Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964

3. LOA’s Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969

4. On my feature story about Walter Matthau in the current issue of Noir City magazine, and William Redfield’s Letters from an Actor

5. I spin the Dial of Destiny and weigh in on the international capers Gold Brick and The Siberia Job

6. Steven Soderbergh’s SF/comedy web series Command Z, paired with a suitable cocktail