Ed’s got brain fog and a bread machine, and John’s got a one-year-old and a lump under his ear. Both of them have a penchant for crime, more so in Scotland than elsewhere, and a list of favorite Lees and Riches. Follow links to H. G. Carillo in the New Yorker, Rose VL Deli, Oklahoma National Stockyards, Midsomer Murders, Malcolm Mackay’s Glasgow Trilogy, Simenon’s Maigret in New York, Yannis Ritsos’s Monochords, T. R. Johnson’s New Orleans: A Writer’s City, and Jordan Ellenberg’s How Not to Be Wrong.