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Homicide Detective Ned Zaleski resents the chief’s decision to enlist Sherlock Holmes’ help in Zaleski’s latest murder investigation. Zaleski fails to see how Holmes, newly transported to the 1990s from his own time by the Santa Cruz...

Marriage is a tricky, tricky act, isn’t it? Quite often those joined in holy matrimony don’t really fit well together, and even when they do, compromises must abound if there is to be any kind of happiness in their new union. And when the marriage is...

Rachel Monroe has two journalistic obsessions: crime and utopia. She’s fascinated by how people deal with extreme situations, when the stakes are high and things fall apart. The two aren’t even so different, she observes: “Utopia always contains within...

The Jam Last weekend, I spent almost every waking minute working on a small game I ended up calling Sam. At 9PM Friday, I shut down everything else, pulled up my workstation and proceeded to work on this game until 5AM, at which point I went to bed...

Years ago, my friend Matt told me that I had to read “The Pillowman” by Martin McDonagh. It took some convincing. Despite being a Drama major, I can rarely just read a play and picture it. “The Pillowman” was an exception. It was vivid. I saw every line...