Kenneth George Bellairs at 71 still covered the St. Louis police department for the Star-Times. In two more months Jock Bellairs would have celebrated his 51st year as a reporter. But one morning ...

George Bellairs. Poisoned Pen, $14.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4926-9956-9. First published in 1961, this workmanlike volume in the British Library Crime Classics series finds Bellairs’s ...

Actor George Wendt died this week at his home in Los Angeles. He was 76. Wendt was born in Beverly and got his start at Chicago’s Second City in the 1970s before going on to a successful ...