Jacob Hinkson

The Belgian novelist Georges Simenon was a monster. I’m not talking about his failures as a human being, which apparently included being a faithless husband, a wartime opportunist, and a problematic father. No, I mean, he was a monster in the sense that he worked like a beast. Over the course of his decades-long career, he published hundreds of novels and stories. The exact count of these published works is impossible to calculate because, starting out, Simenon toiled for years under various ...

At THE LIFE SENTENCE: Jake Hinkson explores MISCHIEF by Charlotte Armstrong

By Jake Hinkson. Reprinted by permission from MENTAL FLOSS.

Jake Hinkson explores the work of Sam Fuller and the birth of Neo-Noir

At THE LIFE SENTENCE: Jake Hinkson reviews the new biography of a film noir icon

Jake Hinkson reports from the 2015 Quais du Polar

Jake Hinkson looks at the instant vampire classic

Mystery Scene Summer Issue #140: Jake Hinkson salutes film noir icon Lizabeth Scott

Orson Welles at 100: The Other Side of the Wind

From the series "Margaret Millar at 100" by Jake Hinkson

Jake Hinkson examines the Georges Simenon stand alone novel The Widower

Jake Hinkson explores the final western of Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda

From the series "Margaret Millar at 100" by Jake Hinkson

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