Framing the Dialogue

Posts Tagged ‘killer’

Dust and Shadow

Imagine the history’s greatest detective and perhaps history’s most gruesome “unsolved” murders.  In Dust and Shadow Dr. Watson retells the tale of his friend’s frantic search for Jack the Ripper.  I have to admit (shamefully) to never  having read one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, but I feel that this work by author Lyndsay Faye gets me pretty close to the real thing.  It is an interesting plot to pit Holmes, a fictional character, against a real maniacal killer who was never caught.  Like all good “who-done-it” novels Faye provides many clues and as many twists to the tale.

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Parse-imony – Drug Deaths

In “Parse-imony” I break down current news stories with my pithy, running commentary…

First the headline:

DEA seizes key execution drug in Ga.

ATLANTA – The Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed Tuesday that the agency seized Georgia’s supply of a key lethal injection drug because of questions about how the stockpile was imported to the U.S. [using the term “seized” conjures up an image of Janet Reno’s automatic weapon bearing agents breaking down doors and “seizing” a young Elian Gonzalez to return him to communist Cuba]

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