Dead girls. They’re everywhere. They’re in the window. They’re in the water. They’re in cabin 10. They on the beach—wrapped in plastic. They’re in red coats and in the snow.… Read more »

This week, while international headlines have been preoccupied with exhaustive coverage of the man with red sauce on his face who has been charged with meatball theft, a more literary—and even… Read more »

An antiques dealer and author has been brutally murdered during a robbery to steal a rare first edition of The Wind in the Willows worth £50,000. Adrian Greenwood, who wrote books for The… Read more »

The school year may be just beginning, but that’s no reason why we can’t bring you the latest in textbook flimflammery, chicanery, and downright criminality. After all, it’s kind of… Read more »

Lawrence Van De Carr, owner of Chicago’s Bootleggers Books was recently making one of his many pilgrimages to the San Francisco Bay area, hoping to unload some of the rare… Read more »

When we last reported on the “Literature Litterer” (aka the Bookdrop Bandit aka the Colophon Coyote), it was still a mystery as to who dumped hundreds of books along the side… Read more »

Bookstores, like all businesses, are susceptible to fraud. However, all committed perpetrators of fraud know that targets like bookstores, which aren’t wildly profitable, tend to be a bit of a… Read more »

(Note: Spoilers for the HBO miniseries The Jinx follow.) Robert Durst’s first wife, Kathleen, disappeared. Decades later, his good friend Susan Berman was murdered in Los Angeles. Soon after, in Galveston,… Read more »

The Hunstville Times reports on an instructor recent running afoul of the authorities at the University of Alabama. Charles Christopher Horton was indicted on a felony ethics charge for requiring… Read more »

We all have that one biologist friend, right? The one who’s spent enough time in the lab and the field to be considered an authority on what in mass culture… Read more »