Well, it sure won’t be the same around here at the Lil’ Blog anymore.
Casey here, and since we’ve designated today as the official “cyber wake” for our friend and fellow blogger, CR Corwin, I guess I’ll lead off. We’ve asked you all the check in with stories and memories.
As for my own, it [...]

It is with great sadness that we here at the Little Blog announce the death of our friend and fellow blogger, CR Corwin. CR (who also wrote under his real name, Rob Levandoski) died on Monday from what his wife called a “massive brain aneurysm and heart attack.”
Rob’s family will receive friends on Friday [...]

There I was, hanging by my big toe . . .
We interrupt today’s blog for these important commercial messages:
This week I’m going to give some well-deserved free advertising to a pair of commercial enterprises that have enriched my life greatly.
The first is the diner at the West Side Market in Cleveland.
The West Side [...]

We have two dogs. Nellie and Dudley. Nellie is a girl dog. Dudley a boy dog. They are Shetland Sheep Dogs. Which means they are herding dogs. Which means they constantly want to herd things. Not a car drives by our house, or a person walks by, or a neighbor’s garage door goes up or [...]

I just got back from the family farm in Hinckley. Today was my mother’s surprise 90th birthday party.
Her birthday was actually on the 14th. We celebrated then with the usual cake and ice cream and cards (which my mother always yells at us for spending so much on: “$3.50? Are you out of your mind?”) [...]

In recent days we’ve heard about Jeff’s impending back-to-school laryngitis and Judy’s pledge to get out of the lawn chair and get some work done. Now it’s my turn to, uh, lament.
It’s been a good summer. Good weather. A little fun here and there. I finally got the sunroom finished and on Saturday [...]

Saturday was my mother-in-law’s 91st birthday. So we all set out for The Spread Eagle Tavern in Hanoverton.
Never heard of it? It’s one of those fancy places where you pay after you eat.
Hanoverton is in Columbiana County, a half-hour east of Canton, on U.S. 30. Hanoverton is nothing much to look at today, but up [...]

It is the new millennium. The Age of Aquarius. And according to the ancient Mayan calendar, just four years before the end of the world as we know it. So now is the time to set ourselves free with total honesty. To admit our sins and peccadilloes without fear or embarrassment.
Therefore, I, C.R. Corwin, [...]

It’s been a quiet summer. But that’s about to change. Beginning this week, there’ll be one earth-shattering event after the other.
It gets started right here, with this week’s announcement of the winner in The Little Blog of Murder contest. Then, of course, comes The Olympics. They’ll be followed closely by the Democratic and [...]

Well, here we are folks – contest week!
Each day, one of us will post a question based on our mysteries. The reader who gets them all correct will win exciting prizes donated by the authors. Wait until Friday, then send your answers to all five questions to:
contest@thelittleblogofmurder.com
As I mentioned last week, I’m donating a [...]