The new issue of PLOTS WITH GUNS hardboiled crime journal is now online. Check out our "friendly" competition for a few more good reads in mystery fiction.

The Finder's Keepers cartoon is a mystery inspired graphic tale found on the Tart City website.

Stop by Barbara Paul's Homepage at http://www.barbarapaul.com/ and check out her message board. You can play a game of botticelli on the message board, the rules of the game are listed there.

I realized today that I have left out one of the more important mystery sites on the web from my Usual Suspects link list. The Gumshoe Site has been around for awhile and has some of the more unique and full information on mysteries. Stop by and Check it out.

Here is a link if you want to purchase videos or DVD's of the winning or nominee films of the 72nd Annual Academy Awards (Oscars).

E-Pub2000 is proud to announce the release of a new murder mystery M.I.T. Can Be Murder, by Frank M. Weyer. Excerpts from this nail biter are located at http://www.networksplus.net/cmcneal.

The first annual Blue Murder Crime Scene will be held in Chicago Sept 29 to Oct 1, 2000. It looks to be something very new and different. See the webpage for details.

MALICE DOMESTIC XII will be held May 5 -7 2000 at the Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC.

I received some email from halfway around the world (Bangkok, Thailand) about a crime fiction author, Christopher G. Moore, who writes novels in asia popular with the expatriate community there. Here's a blurb from the writer's website:

"One of Canada's most successful novelists is almost unknown inside Canada. But in Bangkok and other Asian cities Christopher Moore has become something of a folk hero among foreign workers and travelers. His 12 English language novels have sold more than 20,000 copies in Bangkok alone. His Calvino novels, detective stories with a cross-cultural flair, stand alongside Michael Crichton or Stephen King on the book shelves from airports to shopping malls."

You can purchase the books from his website, I haven't read any of them myself. It's possible the books may one day be published and available in the US and Canada. For anyone with a love of Asia, as I have, these books seem quite intrigueing.

The "Official" NEFARIOUS - Tales Of Mystery Community Forum, Ned's Neon Noir, is now online and available for use. Stop by Smoothtalk for details or go to Ned's Neon Noir to get started. We hope you enjoy this new feature.

Sherlock Holmes on the Web - Yoxley Old Place is a site devoted to Sherlock Holmes and related information. It has links to other Sherlockian websites and a Reference Library which has "a weekly updated Rememberances page, the Shaw 100 best books to start your Holmesian studies, various lists of Holmes abbreviations, scholarly works, pastiches, Sherlockian society pages, and Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Canon as well as non-Sherlockian works". The game's afoot!

We are trying to increase the financial returns from NEFARIOUS so, as you may have noticed, we have added more e-commerce links to the pages of the site. It will help support NEFARIOUS if you start your shopping using one of the links found on this website. A full list of the shopping links can now be found on the Long Green - Ned's Corner Store webpage. We hope you find something of value to purchase which will in turn help us pay our authors and provide them with an incentive that all of us need. Thank You very much.

I was notified of a website called Writer's Insite which is described as follows:

"Writer's Insite provides a wealth of information for writers of all levels and genres, including advice from experts, tools and resources, career information, writing galleries, market wisdom, business directories, courses and training listings, and a range of other topics. Our site traffic and community continue to increase, and we currently have regular visitors from 12 countries, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Norway, India, France, Singapore and Saudi Arabia to name a few."

Writers might want to stop by the site and check it out.

Some months ago I came across "The Crime Writers' Association" on the web. It's a British organization which states: "Our main aims are to enhance the prestige and appreciation of crime-writing; to represent the interests of our membership in matters concerned with crime-writing; and to enable our members to acquire and exchange information, and to meet for professional and social events."

THE MARCH 2000 ISSUE IS NOW ONLINE!

If you're aspiring to become a mystery author, but don't know if your writing is ready for prime time, try Mysterical-e. You can submit short stories for publication in their online E-zine and if the story needs more work they will critique it for you. You can resubmit the story a number of times and get valuable feedback on the quality of your work.