Crime Fiction Alphabet

Mysteries in Paradise is hosting a Crime Fiction Alphabet meme starting the week of May 21, 2012. I love mysteries and this sounds like a great source of inspiration for topics to write about.

Here are the rules as outlined on the host site:

By Friday of each week participants try to write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week.

Your post MUST be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname, or even maybe a crime fiction "topic". But above all, it has to be crime fiction.
So you see you have lots of choice.

You could write a review, or a bio of an author, so long as it fits the rules somehow.
(It is ok too to skip a week.)

I've signed up, and I think I know my first topic.  If you are a mystery reader you may want to join in too!