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Here are 14 of the best books to be reissued this summer, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. * Yukito Ayatsuji, The Clock House Murders Translated by Ho-Ling Wong (Pushkin Vert...
Classic mysteries are popular for their predictable structure shepherded to a tidy conclusion by a sympathetic detective, and I am particularly fond of those set inside academia. T...
ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE November 1948. Cover by George Salter. Overall rating: **½ ROY VICKERS “The Death Position Enigma.” Department of Dead Ends story, Coincidence and a...
There are few writers more closely associated with the impossible crime than John Dickson Carr. Writing as Carter Dickson, he introduced Sir Henry Merrivale, one of the Golden Age’...
MAXWELL GRANT – The Eyes of the Shadow. Bantam H4056, paperback original; 1st printing, August 1969. Reprint of the original novel that appeared in The Shadow Detective Magazine, A...
ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE – January 1968. Overall rating: ***½. JOE GORES “File #2: Stakeout on Page Street.” (Dan Kearney Associates) Involving a delinquent car,, narcotics,...
In June 1898, Ernest William “Willie” Hornung began publishing the short stories that would comprise the collection The Amateur Cracksman. Hornung was at that point a relatively mi...
With some mysteries, whodunnit is only part of the story. These nine fascinating books all feature environs that play a major role in keeping the suspense high and the puzzle madde...
(Give Me That) OLD-TIME DETECTION (OTD). Summer 2026. Issue #72. Editor: Arthur Vidro. Old-Time Detection Special Interest Group of American Mensa, Ltd. 34 pages (including covers)...
A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Ellen Nehr MARTHA GRIMES – The Man with a Load of Mischief. Richard Jury #1. Little, Brown, hardcover, 1981. Dell, paperback, 1990. Many other later...
It’s unsettling to realize while you’re perusing the newest titles at a book fair or listening to a panel of seemingly civilized authors that at least half of the people in the roo...
Writing murder mysteries is not the easiest way to make a living. It takes a lot of a planning, a lot of thought, a lot of hard work. But writing murder mystery short stories is ev...
A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Bill Pronzini JOSIAH E. GREENE – Madmen Die Alone. Morrow, hardcover, 1938. Joseph Parisi, a homicidal inmate at the Exeter Hospital insane asylum...
Nothing delights me more than reading a humorous mystery that combines a page-turning whodunit with laugh-out-loud shenanigans, and I’m lucky to now write them as well in my Hu Don...
Friends! There is nothing—nothing—like a Golden Age mystery! They are the best ways to spend an afternoon, a weekend, a summer vacation…. Golden Age mysteries are in right now, whi...
When we were asked to shift our focus from Midwestern small-town witchiness to Midwestern small town cozy horror for our second series, we…weren’t exactly sure what that meant. We...
Codes and Ciphers by Robert C. S. Adey. Originally published in The Mystery Lover’s Newsletter, 1969. Vol II No. 6, pp. 10/11: Like so many other things, Mr. Edgar Al...
This case takes Dee Rommel, PI, to the rugged coastline of Downeast Maine, where local characters on an isolated island are connected in an interlocking puzzle that ties the past t...
10th mammoth volume of the critically-acclaimed horror magazine/book.Creepy GHOST STORIES & other WEIRD TALES!FEAR IN FOUR COLORS (History of American Horror Comics, part 7)12...
A Murderous Relation A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn is $1.99! This is book five (out of ten right no...
DOUG ALLYN “The Iron Maiden.” Michelle “Mitch” Mitchell, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November-December 2923. The online Crime Fiction Index lists only two stories featuring d...
BOB McKNIGHT – Secret Sinners. Merit 355, paperback original; 1st printing, June 1960. Or, perhaps as an alternate title, The Case of Cocky Robin. No kidding. Attorney Arch Beha...
A serial killer toys with a police detective, exploiting his haunted past.
STEFANIE MATTESON – Murder at Teatime. Charlotte Graham #2. Diamond, paperback original; 1st printing, March 1991. This second installment of the adventures of actress and movi...
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