Mark your calendars for some upcoming deadlines for contests and awards: 

• The application deadline for the William F. Deeck Malice Grants is November 15th. These grants are offered by the Malice Domestic conference for unpublished authors to offset travel, registration or other expenses related to attendance at a writers' conference or workshop within a year of the date of the award (no later than May 2010). In the case of nonfiction, the grant may be used to offset research expenses. The deadline for early registration for the conference is December 31, which will also entitle you to participate in nominations for the Malice Domestic Awards.

• Submissions for the annual Edgar Awards are due November 30th. All books, short stories, television shows, and films in the mystery, crime, suspense, and intrigue fields are eligible for awards in their respective category if they were published or produced for the first time in the U.S. during 2009 (books with a December publication date may be submitted in galleys).

• The deadline for submissions to the CWA Debut Dagger Award is February 6, 2010. The competition is open to anyone who has not had a novel published, commercially, in any genre. Published non-fiction or short-story writers are eligible to enter.

• The Wolfe Pack announced they'll be sponsoring the fourth annual Black Orchid Novella Award, with a deadline of May 31, 2010. Winners receive $1,000 from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and publication. The 2009 winner will be announced December 5 at the Black Orchid Banquet. Tickets are still available for the 32nd Annual Black Orchid Weekend, December 4-6, which includes the banquet, discussions, and brunch. There's a small discount if you register by November 15th.

MOVIES

• Helen Mirren is joining the cast of Red, the film adaptation of the graphic novel series of the same name which follows the fortunes of a retired CIA agent targeted by a high-tech hitman determined to kill him. The big-name cast includes Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman.

• This Fall, Myriad Pictures will spearhead the domestic release of the psychological thriller Cry of the Owl based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith. The film stars stars Julia Stiles and Paddy Considine.

• Crimespree Cinema posted a trailer for The Killer Inside Me, based on the novel by pulp writer Jim Thompson. Casey Affleck stars as small town deputy Lou Ford who has to solve a string of murders for which he becomes a suspect.

• Also from Crimespree comes the tip that Chris Pine (the new Captain Kirk of Star Trek fame), is in line to star in the film version of The Blade Itself, the novel by Marcus Sakey.

• French film company Gaumont picked up distribution rights to De Force, an $11.5 million crime thriller directed by ex-con-turned-filmmaker Frank Henry. The plot hinges on an inmate forced to collaborate with the French organized crime division to dismantle a high-profile gang network.

TV

• Fox is developing a CIA-themed project by Harris Wilkinson and Peter Chernin's new production company. The untitled spy thriller centers on a division of the CIA that specializes in "remote viewing," the ability to gather information using paranormal means.

• Don Cheadle's production company Crescendo is working on several potential projects, including a Boston-set cop drama from John Hlavin (The Shield) at NBC. The show will surround a homicide detective who discovers he shares a surprising connection to his new partner. "The idea was to create a police procedural with a family drama at its heart," Hlavin said. Another of Cheadle's projects is a TV version of the film Star Chamber which centers on a judge who goes after dangerous criminals who are set free by a flawed judicial system.

• The novel Heat Wave "written" by Richard Castle, the fictional mystery author played by Nathan Fillion in the TV show of the same name, has become a bestseller. The book is now in its fifth printing, according to Marie Coolman, executive director of publicity for Hyperion Books, and more copies will ship to distributors on Nov. 9.

• The CBS crime drama Numb3rs may be nearing cancellation. The network has reduced the number of episodes, which is usually a signal of the end days for a show. Co-creator Cheryl Heuton said that regardless, they will make sure the series has closure for the fans. Star Rob Morrow has urged fans to take up a letter-writing campaign to save the show.

• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is joining USA Network's Law & Order: Criminal Intent as part of that the police procedural's cast shakeup for its upcoming ninth season. She'll be playing the new captain taking over the Major Case Squad.

• NCIS: Los Angeles has been sold into syndication after seven weeks on the air which is an industry record not only in the short time involved, but also in the price. The crime drama The Mentalist has also gotten a syndication deal with TNT.

• The BBC has commissioned Life on Mars creators Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham to write the script for an ABC crime drama pilot described as a "California cop show with a British twist."

• The folks behind the popular USA series Monk are developing a number of projects with ABC, including the docu-style crime drama 1-8-7 Detroit from writer Jason Richman about detectives in the homicide capital of the U.S

• A&E has given the go-ahead for the pilot Sugarloaf starring Australian actor Matt Passmore as an ex-Chicago cop who gets kicked off the force after being shot by his ex-captain (who wrongfully accused him of having an affair with his wife) and subsequently moves to a small Florida town and joins the state police.

• A&E has also greenlighted the new crime drama pilot The Quickening, starring Radha Mitchell as Maggie Bird, a homicide detective demoted to a desk job after she's diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Jeffrey Nordling plays her former partner, an ex-cop who left the force to run a detective agency after Maggie took a bullet for him and saved his life. 

• J.J. Abrams himself is going to direct the first episode of Undercovers, his pilot series for NBC about a husband and wife working together as spies. Adams is also credited as co-writer and executive producer with Josh Reims.

• Bookseller by way of Eurocrime is reporting that Philippa Gregory's contemporary thriller The Little House is to be made into a two-part drama for ITV1.

WEB/RADIO

• The latest CrimeWav podcast is up, featuring Tom Piccirilli talking about writing, Facebook, money, and his new novel Shadow Season.

• John Grisham was interviewed on PBS's Charlie Rose program. That link also has previous interviews with the author talking about writing and the future of publishing, among other things.

THEATER

• Angela Lansbury, award-winning star of the TV show Murder She Wrote, as well as many films and countless plays, will receive Signature Theatre's first annual Stephen Sondheim Award at a black-tie gala dinner in Washington, DC, in April 2010, according to artistic director Eric Schaeffer, who said, "She is a major force in the American musical theatre and we look forward to saluting her endless talents."

GAMES

• PlayFirst is introducing a new interactive pulp murder mystery video game, Valerie Portal and the Scarlet Scandal, where 1920s cub newspaper reporter Porter finds herself embroiled in the hottest murder case the town has even seen. Players help find clues and can try out the new "click-n-string" timed hidden object feature.

Publishers Weekly is sponsoring their first annual National Bookstore Day, and participating stores are offering up promotions, discounts, author signings, raffles and contests to celebrate the day. Several mystery bookstores are involved, including The Poisoned Pen, Book'Em Mysteries, "M" is for Mystery, Mysterious Galaxy, Centuries and Sleuths, Mechanicsburg Mystery Book Shop, and Mystery on Main Street. But there are other bookstores listed, too, so consider stopping by one of your local bookstores and picking up a few early Christmas presents (and a little something for yourself).

it may be tempting to order a book from an online discounter, but consider everything local stores give to the community, not the least of which in this day and age are jobs and taxes for local coffers. Plus, it's kinda hard to attend a real-live author booksigning or talk via binary bits.

British author Alfred Edward Woodley (A.E.W.) Mason, born in 1865, spent much of his career serving in Parliament and in World War I where he worked in naval intelligence. Although his first novel was A Romance at Wastdale, Mason is credited with one of the earliest fictional police detective protagonists, Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté. The novel in which Hanaud made his debut was Murder at the Villa Rose, published in 1910.

Mason created Hanaud as an anti-Sherlock Holmes, at least in appearance, a short, broad man who resembles a "prosperous comedian." Hanaud's Watson-esque sidekick is Julius Ricardo, a fussy English dilettante. It's quite possible that Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings (or possibly Christie's Mr. Satterthwaite) were modeled on the characters of French-speaking Hanaud and Englishman Ricardo.

The plot is based loosely on real cases (a wealthy French widow found murdered in her villa and an English shopkeeper murdered for jewels), and Mason also drew on procedural details from the memoirs of French policemen. Basically, when the elderly and eccentric Mme. D'Auvray is murdered in her home, the Villa Rose, and suspicion falls on her young companion, Celia Harland who's gone missing, Hanaud is called onto the case. But Hanaud solves the crime midway through the book, with the latter half told in flashback as the readers are left to piece together what exactly happened and are challenged to guess the solution to the murder mystery from the clues provided.

Several of Mason's works were later adapted for the silver screen, including four versions of Murder at the Villa Rose, a silent film in 1920 and two "talkies" from 1930 (one in English, one in French), and another in 1940. Mason went on to write four other books featuring Inspector Hanaud, but he's perhaps best known for his novel The Four Feathers (not a crime fiction novel per se), which is one of the most-filmed novels of the 20th century, including the latest incarnation from 2002 with Heath Ledger in the role of Harry Feversham.

A few interesting trivia bits about Mason: England's King George V was a friend and one of his most avid readers; although Mason penned little in the way of spy stories, he was a successful agent for years in Spain and Northern Mexico (it's said he may have foiled a German plot to move anthrax infected livestock into France during WWI); Mason was a failed actor, although he appeared in a small number of works on the London stage during the late 1880s; his story "The Crystal Trench" was adapted for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, one of the few episodes directed by Hitchcock himself; and Mason was offered a knighthood for his literary work, but declined it, saying such honors meant nothing to a childless man.

•  Euro Crime has been posting a 3-part interview with Don Bartlett, the translator of Jo Nesbø and K O Dahl's crime fiction books from Norwegian to English. Nesbø and Don Bartlett have been shortlisted with a CWA Dagger Award, and in light of the wave of Scandinavian mystery novels over the past few years, it's interesting to hear from one of the folks who make it possible for English-speakers to enjoy those works, too.

• Speaking of Scandinavian crime fiction, Crime Scraps is reporting that the Swedish Crime Academy have selected the nominees for this year's best translated crime novel (the Martin Beck Award) and the best Swedish crime novel.

• Mystery Fanfare has news of a a mystery writing workshop in Berkeley featuring Cornelia Read, coming up November 21st and 22nd. Meanwhile thousands of miles away, Big Beat From Badsville has a link to an event for writers which combines a writing workshop with forensic science in Edinburgh.

• Deborah Elliott-Upton offers up 10 Myths About a Writer's Life at Criminal Brief, while Martin Edwards talks about how writers research place.

• Laura James over at Clews, makes note of three new regional true crime story collections focusing on southern Indiana, Miami, and Cincinnati. For short-story markets and news, Sandra Seamans has some updates.

• From Bish's Beat comes word of a bit of Australian Noir, an article by Ryan K. Linday in an upcoming issue of Crimina, the crime comic from Sean Phillips and Ed Brubackers.

News such as the recent book pricing wars between high-volume retailers like Walmart, Target, Amazon and Sears are enough to have everyone involved in the publishing industry wringing their hands and make folks like me wonder if one day in the future, it will be authors standing by the side of the road with a sign and tin cup for handouts.

John Grisham weighed in on the subject and called the move by the retailers "shortsighted" at best, by devaluing the book. He said: "It's shortsighted, short term, they know what they are doing I think, but if a book is worth $10 then suddenly the whole industry is going to change, you are going to lose publishers and book stores, and though I'll probably be alright, aspiring authors are going to find it difficult to get published."

In that same article link above, the American Booksellers point out, rightly so, that none of the companies involved are engaged primarily in the sale of books. "They're using our most important products -- mega bestsellers, which, ironically, are the most expensive books for publishers to bring to market -- as a loss leader to attract customers to buy other, more profitable merchandise. The entire book industry is in danger of becoming collateral damage in this war." After all, if books suddenly disappeared, Walmart wouldn't care -- it would still have clothes, food and toys to sell.

As if that wasn't enough, Declan Burke on his blog Crime Always Pays, bemoans the attitude of certain literary agencies that good writing isn't as important as plot and character, and he goes on to make the case there's a parallel in cinema which shows the great movies which stand the test of time almost always have good writing as a foundation.

To throw in another commercial element, author Lynda La Plante made pointed remarks at the recent Crime Thriller Awards, taking publishers to task for pouring buckets of money into books "written" by celebrity authors, a speech that came on the heels of several authors including P.D. James quoted in the Daily Mail expressing their anger and feelings of how it was "deeply dispiriting" that the publishing industry was ignoring real writers "in favor of rubbish."

Will good writing continue to matter? Will books become so devalued, artistically and financially, that only celebrity books get published in the future the traditional way? Does anyone have a crystal ball?  People who write for the sheer love it will continue to do so forever, published or no, but it will be interesting to see what the future holds for writing as a profession.

Both Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine are now offering free short story podcasts. EQMM has three up so far, including—what else—an Ellery Queen story, "The Myna Birds," as well as offerings by Neil Schofield and Melodie Johnson Howe. AHMM offers up stories by Will Ludwigsen and Jane K. Cleland. The publications promise that more will be added each month.

Joining the podcast lineup is iPulpFiction.com, a new site offering up stories for a small fee in variety of genres, although November is "mystery month" on the site, with the featured-story-of-the-month, "Death of a Snowbird," from the J. A. Jance Casebook series. Also available are Moonchasers and Other Stories by writer Ed Gorman and the Bill Ferrel Mysteries by Bill Crider.

MOVIES

The Galway News has a brief report about filming that has begun on two different versions of The Guards by crime fiction author Ken Bruen. The first is a TV pilot by Magma Films starring Iain Glen (Resident Evil and Tomb Raider) as Bruen's protagonist Jack Taylor. The other production is a feature film also based on the same Bruen book and starring award-winning actor Brendan Gleeson.

Just released this coming week is a new DVD collection, Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics I, with five restored movies from the ’50s. There are also many extras in the set, including an interview with James Ellroy, which Kansas City Star reviewer Robert Butler describes as Ellroy unleashing "an ear-burningly profane, politically incorrect (borderline racist, overtly homophobic) commentary that is simultaneously offensive and hilarious."

Former wrestler "The Rock" (real name, Dwayne Johnson) and Billy Bob Thornton are set to star in a police procedural action movie by CBS Films titled Faster. The script will be written by Joe and Tony Gayton, with George Tillman directing. It should start production early next year.

Rumors have Leonardo DiCaprio taking on the remake of The Third Man, the story of pulp author Holly Martins who comes to post-WWII Vienna for the funeral of his friend Harry Lime, a role immortalized by Orson Welles. If the project comes to pass, the script would be written by Steven Knight, with DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire in the leading roles.

Milla Jovovich will star in the upcoming psychological thriller Faces, about a woman who barely survives an attack by a serial killer which leaves her with a head injury causing "face-blindness" (a real-life neurological disorder called prosopagnosia). No longer able to recognize faces, she must navigate a world in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, as the killer closes in.

TV

Dana Stabenow reports that Evergreen Films has acquired the screen rights to her Kate Shugak novels, with the intention of making a television series.

Denis Leary (Rescue Me) and Apostle Films are working on developing programs that include Gattaca, a TV series remake of the original futuristic police procedural film; also two USA Network dramas -- a procedural drama called Partners in Crime, about divorced spouses who are private eyes; and a heavyweight drama called Scales of Justice, about an overweight former cop who teams up with his support group to fight crime.

HBO has reportedly ordered an adaptation of the 2007 thriller The Follower by author Jason Starr for a series, with Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Less than Zero) set to pen the screenplay.

NBC is working on a new untitled pilot about a crime-solving magician whose career is washed up after he develops stage fright and agoraphobia and is then approached by an elite law enforcement group to use his talents to solve tough cases. One wonders (should NBC pick it up) if it will go head-to-head with a similar magician-crime-drama ABC is developing starring Penn and Teller.

TNT has ordered a drama pilot titled Delta Blues, from executive producer George Clooney and writer Liz Garcia (Cold Case), about a Memphis cop who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator and lives with his mother.

Media Rights Capital and David Fincher are teaming up for a new TV series, House of Cards, based on the political thriller novel by Michael Dobbs and the British miniseries of the same name. It will be set in the U.S., but keep the same focus of political ambition and blackmail.

USA Network's dramedy White Collar had a solid debut in the ratings. It stars Matthew Bomer as a con man who takes a job as an FBI consultant to avoid going back to jail.

The latest installment in Akashic Books' noir city series is officially released today. It's Boston Noir, edited by Dennis Lehane and featuring stories by Lehane, Stewart O'Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron. You can read interviews with Lehane about the anthology with The Boston Phoenix and Publishers Weekly. When asked how Boston noir compares to that of other cities, he said, "If you look at Boston, it's a different kind of comedy. It's a darker kind of-blacker-more Boston type of comedy. The idea that, I'll say about Bostonians, that God's a bit of a jokester and we're the punchline."

Here's the latest monthly roundup of author booksigning events at mystery book stores around the U.S. and Canada (for dates at chain stores and other venues, check out booktour.com and similar sites).

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Aunt Agatha's
Ann Arbor, MI

Author:   Libby Fischer Hellman /  Sharon Fiffer
Title:  Doubleback / Scary Stuff
Event Time:  Sunday, November 8 at 2 p.m.

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Book Passage
Corte Madera, CA

Author:  Keith Raffel / Libby Fischer Hellman
Title: Smasher / Doubleback 
Event Time:  Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 7 p.m.

Author:  Michelle Gagnon, Diana Orgain, Juliet Blackwell, Sophie Littlefield, Margaret Grace, Rhys Bowen, Ann Parker & Mark Coggins 
Title: Sisters In Crime Fall Showcase
Event Time: Saturday, November 7, 2009, 2 p.m.

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Booked for Murder
Madison, WI

Author:  Carl Brookins
Title:   Devil's Island
Event Time: Thursday, November 5,   6 p.m.

Author:  Greg Przywara
Title:  IVD
Event Time:  Saturday, November 7, 2 p.m.

Author:  Jim Proebstle
Title:    In the Absence of Honor
Event Time:  Thursday, November 12, 6 p.m.

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Centuries and Sleuths
Forest Park, IL

Author:  John Connolly
Title: The Gate (A Children's Novel) and Lovers (A Charlie Parker Thriller)
Event Time:  Tuesday, November 3, 2009 7 p.m.

Author:  Diane Gilbert Madsen
Title:  A Cadger's Curse
Event Time:  Thursday, November 5, 2009 7 p.m.

Author: Julia Keller
Title:  Back Home 
Event Time:  Friday, November 6, 2009 7 p.m.. 

Author:  Libby Fischer Hellmann
Title: Doubleback
Event Time: Saturday, November 7, 2009 2 p.m.

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Clues Unlimited
Tucson AZ

Author:  Pete Goodman
Title:  Smoking Frog Lives
Event Time:  Saturday, November 7th at 2 p.m.

Author:  Jeri Westerson
Title:  The Serpent in the Thorns
Event Time: Monday, November 9th at 7 p.m.

Author: Patrick Millikin (editor) and contributors: Stella Pope Duarte, Robert Anglen, Charles Kelly, and Kurt Reichenbaugh
Title: Phoenix Noir event
Event Time: Thursday, November 12th at 3:30 p.m.

Author: Kris Neri
Title:  High Crimes on the Magical Plane
Event Time:  Saturday, November 14th, 1 p.m.

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M is for Mystery
San Mateo, CA

Authors:  John Connolly 
Title:  Gates
Event Time:  Sunday, November 1st at 1p.m.

Author: Keith Raffel / Libby Fischer Hellman
Title: Smashed / Doubleback
Event Time: Sunday, November 1st at 3:00 p.m.  (off-site)  

Author:  Mark Coggins / Michael Chabon
Title: The Big Wake Up /  Manhood for Amateurs
Event Time:   Tuesday, November 3rd at 7:00 p.m.

Author:  Keith Raffel / Libby Fischer Hellman
Title:  Smashed / Doubleback
Event Time:  Thursday, November 5th at 7p.m.

Author:  Robert Greer
Title: Spoon
Event Time:  Saturday, November 7th at 2 p.m.

Author:  Susan Kandel
Title: Dial H for Hitchcock
Event Time: Wednesday,  November 11th at 7 p.m.

Author:  M.E. Harrigan
Title:  9800 Savage Road 
Event Time:  Thursday, November 12th at 7 p.m. (off-site) 

Author: Sheila Lowe 
Title:  Dead Write
Event Time:  Friday, November 13th at 2:30 p.m.

Author: Greg Bear
Title: Mariposa
Event Time:   Saturday, November 14th at 2:00 p.m.

Author: Efrem Sigel 
Title:  The Disappearance
Event Time:   Saturday, November 14th at 3:30 p.m.(off-site)

Author:  Martin Limón
Title:  GI Bones
Event Time: Thursday, November 19th at 7:00 p.m.

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Murder by the Book
Houston, TX

Author:  Oscar Casares, Lee Child, David Cross, Charlaine Harris,  Julie Powell 
Title: Houston Chronicle Book & Author Dinner
Event Time:  Sunday, November 1, evening (off-site)

Author:  Lucha Corpi 
Title:  Death at Solstice
Event Time:  Tuesday, November 3, 6:30 p.m.

Author: Sarah Cortez and Lucha Corpi
Title:  Various
Event Time:  Wednesday, November 4, 7:00 p.m. (off-site). 

Author:  Susan Kandel
Title:  Dial "H" for Hitchcock
Event Time:  Thursday, November 5, 6:30 p.m.

Author: Greg Herren
Title:   Murder in the Garden District
Event Time:  Saturday, November 7, 4:30 p.m.

Author:  Martin Limón
Title: G. I. Bones 
Event Time:  Friday, November 13, 6:00 p.m.

Author:   Wendy Lyn Watson / Misa Ramirez
Title:  I Scream, You Scream / Living the Vida Lola
Event Time:  Saturday, November 14, 4:30 p.m.

Author:  Rachel Caine
Title: Fade Out
Event Time:  Saturday, November 14, 6:30 p.m.

Author:  David Baldacci
Title:  True Blue
Event Time:  Wednesday, November 18, afternoon stock signing

Author:  Clive Cussler
Title:   Spartan Gold & The Wrecker
Event Time:  Wednesday, November 18, 6:30 p.m.

Author:  Janice Law / Sam Waas
Title:  Small Press Saturday
Event Time:   Saturday, November 21, 4:30 p.m.

Author:  James Hime
Title: Where Armadillos Go to Die
Event Time:  Saturday, November 28, 5:00 p.m.

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Murder on the Beach
Delray Beach, FL

Author:  Elaine Viets 
Title: Fashion Hound Murder
Event Time:  Wednesday, November 4, 2009, at 7 pm

Author:   Karen Kendall / Randy Rawls
Title:  Take Me For a Ride / Gift of Murder Holiday anthology
Event Time:  Friday, November 6, 2009, at 7 pm

Author:  Abby Arrington
Title:  Precession
Event Time: Saturday, November 7, 2009, at 1 pm . 

Author:   Margaret Fenton, Patricia Gussin, Don Bruns, H. Terrell Griffin, Deborah Shlian and Joel Shlian
Title:  An Evening with Oceanview Authors
Event Time: Monday, November 16, 2009, at 7 pm

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Mysterious Galaxy
San Diego, CA

Author:  Diana Killian
Title:  Dial Om for Murder
Event Time:  Saturday, November 7, 2009 2:00 p.m.

Author:  Susan Kandel 
Title: Dial H for Hitchcock
Event Time: Saturday, November 7, 2009 2:00 p.m. 

Author:  Brian Haig
Title:  The Hunted 
Event Time:  Friday, November 13, 2009 7:00 p.m.. 

Author:  Greg Bear / Alan Jacobson / Martin Limón
Title:   Mariposa / Crush /  G.I. Bones
Event Time:  Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:00 p.m.

Author:  Carola Dunn
Title:  Sheer Folly
Event Time:  Friday, November 20, 2009 7:00 p.m.

Author:  John Lamb / Michelle Gagnon
Title:  The Treacherous Teddy / The Gatekeeper
Event Time:  Sunday, November 22, 2009 2:00 p.m.

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Once Upon a Crime Books
Minneapolis, MN

Author:  John Connolly
Title:  The Gates
Event Time:  Thursday, November 5 - 7:00 p.m.

Author: Richard A. Thompson 
Title:  Frag Box
Event Time: Thursday, November 12 - 7:00 p.m.

Author:  Ellen Hart / Carl Brookins
Title: The Mirror and the Mask / Devil's Island 
Event Time:  Wednesday, November 18 - 7:00  p.m.

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Poisoned Pen
Scottsdale, AZ

Author: Steven F. Havill  
Title:  Red, Green, or Murder
Event Time:  Sunday, November 1, 2009, at 12:30 p.m.

Author: Robert Greer / Margaret Coel
Title:  Spoon / Silent Spirit
Event Time:  Sunday, November 1, 2009, at 1:00 p.m.

Author:  Carolyn Hart
Title:  Merry, Merry Ghost
Event Time:  Thursday, November 5, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.. 

Author: Jeri Westerson / Pete Goodman
Title:  Serpent in the Thorns / Smoking Frog Lives
Event Time:  Sunday, November 8, 2009, at 2:00 p.m.

Author:  Emily Arsenault
Title:  The Broken Teaglass
Event Time:  Thursday, November 12, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.

Author: John Sandford, hosting "Guys Night" with Josh Bazell, Martin Limón, Thomas Perry, James Rollins, Don Winslow
Title:  Rough Country
Event Time: Saturday, November 14, 2009, at 6:00 p.m.  (off-site)

Author:  Clive Cussler
Title:  The Wrecker 
Event Time: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.

Author:  Karl Alexander
Title:  Jaclyn The Ripper
Event Time:  Monday, November 30, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.

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Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Seattle, WA

Author: Martin Limón
Title:  G.I. Bones
Event Time:  Saturday, November 7, noon

Author: Anthony Flacco 
Title:  The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders
Event Time:  Saturday, November 14, noon

Author: Derek Haas
Title: Columbus   
Event Time:  Saturday, November 21, noon

Author:  Greg Bear
Title: Mariposa
Event Time:   Saturday., November 28, noon

Author:  J. A. Jance 
Title: Trial by Fire  
Event Time:  Monday, November 30, noon

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