Obscure TV & more (5#) -

Michael Dibdin's
Italian detective Aurelio Zen . . . 

is making his debut on this coming Sunday evening as part of the PBS Masterpiece Mystery! TV series.

:: J Kingston Pierce gives us a preview.

# Megan Abbott writes a piece about Mysteries
in Suburbia and what inspired her to write one.

"We are the least reliable narrators of the places we grew up and it’s taken me nearly 20 years to write about my hometown... the story of a 13-year-old girl whose best friend disappears is set in a Grosse Pointe facsimile."

# Theodore Dalrymple writes
a thoughtful piece about the serial killer who
called himself the Crossbow Cannibal at City Journal.

# Is there anything to laugh about
in Egypt these days? Egyptian-American comic
Ronnie Khalil performs stand-up comedy in Cairo.

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