Kevin Burton Smith's Page

As you may or may not know, I've got a real blog out there at http://thrillingdetectiveblog.blogspot.com/, but for those of you who haven't wandered over to the THRILLING DETECTIVE BLOG, here's a recap of my latest message there:

JACK OF ALL MEDIA (MASTER OF NONE)

My recent appearance in a Los Angeles Times profile by journalist Scott Timberg, where he grilled me on on LA crime writer Robert Crais, was evidently just a warm-up act.

This week, an interview I did with Shannon Clute and Richard… Continue

I know they're out there, but who are they? There are the obvious ones, the usual suspects that anyone rumbling through this Crimespace scene could pick put of any lineup.

But what about those private gumshoes that rocked our world but never quite made the big time? Or made it, and then quietly slipped away? What about the coulda-been and the shoulda-been contenders? The one-shot wonders?

I'm doing an article, and it isn't so much who I include that I worry about; it's the between-the-crac… Continue