Pop quiz. What do Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell, Johnny Cash and, perhaps more surprisingly, the Tragically Hip all have in common?
The answer: All of them have been the inspiration for crime fiction anthologies of short stories based on the titles of their songs.
With a story of my own, Have a Cigar, appearing this year in Coming Through in Waves, an anthology of crime fiction named after Pink Floyd tracks, I became intrigued by this strange sub-genre of the literary world.
I did some research into its history. You can read my findings, originally published in The Rap Sheet, here.
There’s a new Messiah on Earth. This one’s female and her followers are stockpiling weapons for armed insurgency in her name…
