Lev Raphael, author of the acclaimed The German Money, reviews a few mysteries in his Detroit Free Press column. He pans the new Mickey Spillane book, Something's Down There, saying "The confused story is mildly intriguing, but the book's writing verges on parody, and the storytelling is as flat as the characters."

You've gotta hand it to Mick for keeping his hat in the ring after all these years, but when's the last time he wrote a book that anyone actually cared to read?