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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’...
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...
REVIEWED BY WILLIAM F. DEECK: JAMES CORBETT – Vampire of the Skies. Herbert Jenkins, UK, hardcover, 1932. Ramble House, US, softcover, 2014. Reviewing a James Corbett novel...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
GEORGE BAGBY – Murder Calling “50”. Doubleday Crime Club, hardcover, 1942. History books are fine, but they don’t tell the whole story. The same pieces of personal history may o...
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...
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...
Part One: Mrs. H. Attwood, formerly Mary Stokes —“I suppose,” thought Harriet, “she had one of those small, summery brains, that flower early and run to seed. “I always thought she...
With British detective fiction so congested, crafting a compelling new detective, sidekick and ensemble seems a daunting prospect. Andrew Lowe managed this in fine style with the f...
A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Marcia Muller EDITH PIÑERO GREEN – Rotten Apples. Dearborn V. Pinch #1. E. P. Dutton, hardcover, 1977. Berkley, paperback, 1982. Dearborn V. Pinc...
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...
I'm halfway through Horowitz' book 'The Word Is Murder," and I'm loving every minute of it. It's sort of a meta-fictionalized effort on his part, melding real characters in to his...
Now that Halloween is in the rearview mirror in Eylan Hollow, Bailey Briggs is gearing up for the Christmas season at the Lazy Bones Bookshop, which she runs with help from her ded...
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...
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...
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...
When Burke Weathers, Garrett Weathers’ rich and famous author grandfather, dies, his will includes an unusual stipulation: Garrett and his mother will only inherit if they spend a...
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...
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