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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...
There is an exquisite pleasure unique to Agatha Christie and which the African literary tradition has, largely, shied away from exploring. It is the pleasure of receiving all the...
Mysteries and thrillers pose a familiar set of questions: What happened? Who did it? Who was the victim? Can the criminal be stopped? What will happen next? These questions are ind...
Twenty years after the job of “detective” was established in Britain, via the Criminal Investigation Division of the New Metropolitan Police in 1842, detectives began appearing on...
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’...
Three 1970s TV detectives return in books about clever mysteries, iconic characters and solving crimes without tech
My Top 10 PI Novels, by Tony Baer. — One per author; private = no police detectives: The Maltese Falcon Long Goodbye Galton Case 8th Circle (Ellin) No Good from a Corp...
I love when a mystery knows it’s a mystery. I mean, I love when any story knows it’s a story, but I especially love it when that story is a mystery. For me, the more meta, the more...
We’ll get things going this week with a little bit of amateur sleuth fun – it’s Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder. To be fair, neither have I, although I did figure out whi...
The day my editor asked me to write a Women’s Fiction series I immediately said, Yes! Followed by, what’s Women’s Fiction? Isn’t all fiction Women’s Fiction? I mean, I read everyth...
What is a locked-room mystery? And is it different from a closed-circle mystery? I’ve heard people refer to my new book, The Getaway, as both, and this has had me scratching my hea...
When a crime-fiction conference recently came to San Francisco, a friend of mine issued me a challenge: since Capri Sanzio, the protagonist of my current mystery series, is a true-...
Cozy mystery amateur sleuths always seem to stumble into solving murders with surprising results. Their day jobs may seem like ordinary professions on the surface, but once a myste...
I, like virtually every other younger small-town American millennial I know, grew up reading a series called Encyclopedia Brown. You must know the one: A tweenage resident of an un...
Ultimately, The Game Is Murder is a murder mystery that is just as interested in dissecting the genre as it is in the mystery itself. The post HAZELL WARD exhumes the Lord Lucan my...
The title is a bit misleading as the “British” have been with us for quite some time. I doubt anyone would have anticipated the tsunami of Jane Austen’s popularity when her first f...
When a celebrity author is murdered at a crime writing festival, a Scandi-noir writer and an English 'crime-ance' novelist plot to catch the killer of a man they both love to hate.
One of the most delicious parts of crime fiction is that it’s loaded with tension. Our desire to know what will happen next in a story keeps us racing through the pages. We gather...
Christmas and crime go together like port and stilton. Turkey and stuffing. Sprouts and a cracked window. Indeed, snowbound country houses, mysterious deaths beneath the mistletoe...
Going back to Poe’s C Auguste Dupin and Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, procedural mysteries have an illustrious history in crime fiction. Damien Boyd’s new Seeing Red fits that pop...
I first came across the South West Coast of England on Google Earth. At the time, having young children prevented me from traveling to the places I wrote about and I turned to Goog...
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,...
About the Book:Three years ago, the body of an elderly woman was found in the cool waters beneath the Deception Pass Bridge near Whidbey Island, Washington. Two years later, a dece...
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