Iran arrests ‘Agatha Christie serial killer’: Woman accused of drugging, suffocating and robbing her victims was inspired by classic crime novels, police claim [Guardian]
Tough Love for the Humanities: Kass argued that we only benefit from studying the humanities if we do so “in search of the good, the true, and the beautiful” — and that most institutions of higher learning today are teaching nearly the opposite. [Inside Higher Ed]
We still believe in Sherlock Holmes, even in the age of DNA: I can’t, alas, think of a single modern murder that could have been cleared up by a man with a magnifying glass and a remarkable capacity for reasoning. It’s the size of the DNA database that delivers modern criminals to justice. [Telegraph]
Frank McCourt treated for cancer: Angela’s Ashes author undergoing chemotherapy for melanoma and ‘doing pretty well’ [Guardian]
Elsie B. Washington, a Novelist, Dies at 66: Elsie B. Washington, whose 1980 book, “Entwined Destinies,” is widely considered the first black romance novel, died on May 5 in Manhattan. [NYT]
Forgotten authors No.33: HRF Keating: Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating was born in 1926 near Hastings. A lifelong mystery novel lover, he was the crime books reviewer for The Times for 15 years, and is the author of 24 Inspector Ghote mysteries, which are set in the old offices of the Mumbai CID. Keating did not visit India until a full decade and nine Mumbai novels had passed – proof that you don’t always need to write from direct experience. He actually felt that the books were harder to write after his visit. [Independent]
Site Lets Writers Sell Digital Copies: Turning itself into a kind of electronic vanity publisher, Scribd, an Internet start-up here, will introduce on Monday a way for anyone to upload a document to the Web and charge for it. [NYT]
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