RARA-AVIS: Crime Time (Was: The Case of the Missing Peter Walker)

ejm duggan (ejmd@mcmail.com)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 14:20:57 -0700 On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Kevin Smith <kvnsmith@colba.net> wrote:

[SNIP Peter Walker biog & cv]=20

> By the way, the new CrimeTime is out. It's a British crime mag, now
> published as a digest-sized paperback, and the focuss is usually on the
> more hardboiled side of things. Think of the late Armchair Detective wi=
th
> balls.=20

[SNIP]

> The new format,
> though, isn't as funky-looking as the old one, which was a regular-size=
d
> magazine jammed full of illustrations and sidebars. Then again, it now =
has
> fiction, in the form of a couple of short stories and excerpts, includi=
ng
> stuff by James Sallis and Steven Saylor.=20

It's also MUCH BIGGER! The magazine sized Crime Time was neat, but I
think the new format, which is a digest-sized paperback or a
paperback-sized digest runs to almost 300 pages! (ok, ok, 288). The old
magazine format was a mere 64 pages. The new format is easier to fit in
your pocket or handbag without folding. Now you need never be without
your Crime Time. I never go anywhere without my copy. =20

> I forget, offhand, what their
> Crime Time's URL is, but it's listed on my site.=20

http://www.crimetime.demon.co.uk

> It's a great mag, and I'm
> thinking of finally subscribing to it, instead of relying on photocopie=
s
> from Pete.

You should, it's really quite value.
If anyone is interested in subscribing, do this:

Phone +44 1582 712244
Read out your Visa/Mastercard number.

It's a snip at =A330 [that's "30 UK pounds"] for four issues.

UK subscribers can phone 01582 712244, or send a cheque for =A320 ["20
pounds"] to:
=20
Subscriptions Dept
Crime Time
18 Coleswood Road
Harpenden
Herts
AL5 1EQ

Here's what Tangled Web had to say about it:

> Groundbreaking fiction from:
> CWA Golden Dagger nominee James Sallis, Maxim Jakubowski,
> Jerry Sykes, Carol Anne Davis, Ed Gorman, Gwendoline Butler,
> Bill Pronzini and more...
> Features on:
> David Goodis=20
> The Hardboiled passions of Wittgenstein
> The new bleed of LA Private Eyes
>=20
> Children and Violence by bestselling author Michelle Spring
> Writing Historical Crime by Molly Brown
> An Evening with Colin Dexter
>=20
> Interviews with:
> Maxim Jakubowski
> John Lescroat=20
> Comics auteur Alan Moore on his Jack The Ripper opus 'From
> Hell'
> Gemma O'Connor
>=20
> Plus regular columns by John Kennedy Melling, Steve Holland,
> Mark Ramsden, what's new in paperback, a skedillion reviews in
> The Verdict and much, much more.
> So cheap and enjoyable it'll probably be illegal soon. Forget the
> Dome - you want an Ellery Queen's Mystery magazine for the
> millennium, and we've given it to you on a plate. As James
> Ellroy once said 'Crime Time rules, other droob' and, let's face it,
> in the rule/drool area James knows his stuff.

So whaddya waiting for ...?

ED
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