I've just learned (through The Rap Sheet) that my friend and colleague Dick Adler is ill. I don't have any more details than that, but I did receive an email message from Dick last night and although it was brief, it didn't sound like he was doing very well.
Hopefully this will only prove to be some minor malady and Dick will soon resume his critic's duties. He has been one of the finest champions of crime fiction over the past few decades and an invaluable contributor to the scholarship of our genre.
Dick and I are "rival" critics in the same way that Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel were. Dick writes for the Chicago Tribune and I write for the Chicago Sun-Times. Of course, neither of us live anywhere near Chicago, we never appear on TV, and almost nobody knows who I am. So it's not much of a rivalry.
Dick, you're in my thoughts and prayers and I wish you all the best.
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