For JDC fans, the December edition of CADS (Crime and Detective Stories) will include 'A Room With A Clue,' an analysis of Dr. Fell's famous locked-room...
While I'm moving home - which has delayed this month's update of my site - there may be some ... ah ... "disruption" in the communication with myself and my...
Jeff, was this your introductory article at the Sisters in Crime site? <http://sisters-in-crime-sinc.blogspot.com/> I enjoyed it. And people on this list may...
For anyone who has been wanting to read a full length Paul Halter novel, their wish has been granted --- if they own a Kindle. 'The Lord of Misrule' is now...
Impossible Crime Short Stories A few short stories in Michael Innes' first collection "Appleby Talking" are either impossible crimes or close relations. "The...
Returning to this list after a long absence due to various idiocies and vicissitudes, I have a few queries which have accumulated and I am sure will be easily...
Nick, the story that springs to mind (and doubtless also sprange to the collective minds of the assembled list) is Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace's The Tea...
... copyright, with nobody knowing to whom his rights belong. Until this legal nonsense is resolved one way or another, modern publishers are unlikely to risk...
To anyone and everyone: Is there in existence an anthology or (less likely, I would think) a single-author collection of short mysteries that deal exclusively...
"Agatha's Haunts" On the final day of the month-long B&N Agatha Christie celebration, I take a tour of Agatha's Haunts, complete with photos. Please join me at...
"Twain turned his considerable satirical talents on all manner of subject material during his career, including detective fiction, which had gotten a boost...
Friends, "The Girl Who Played With Fire" references a book "Dimensions in Mathematics" for which this old mathematics aficionado has developed an interest....
. . . who turned 80 yesterday. I think it was Jon Breen who first pointed out that in his Morse books Dexter combined the Golden Age love of twisty plotting,...
One of my interests is film adaptations of mystery/detective stories (particularly puzzle plots). Not all that many of them are good, but it's exciting to...
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Someone somewhere killed someone by hitting them with a frozen leg of lamb which was then stuck in the oven and roasted. Carola http://CarolaDunn.WEEBLY.com...
I read a book years ago which I really enjoyed - I can't remember the name of it, or the characters, or the author. Set in New York, it started off with two...
In case anyone is interested, this was the pseudonym of Amian Lister Champneys, 1879-1951. Al Hubin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
"Anthony Wynne's detective novels have been out of print for sixty years, but some retain interest today. Along with John Dickson Carr, Wynne was one of the ...
Quite by chance I picked up Cold Blood by Leo Bruce at my library a few months ago. Both author and detective (Sergeant Beef) were new to me. The author's life...
For those who are interested, some of her rare John Redfern and Jolyon Carr detective stories are on ebay. [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Does anyone know how many locked room mysteries Carolyn Wells wrote and what the titles are? I have no intention of reading all eighty of her books to find...
GADers! Not having speakers I am unable to hear the podcast to which Mike kindly alerts us, but did want to mention I recently discovered there was a second...
Gardner wrote a series of Western short tales set in desert locales, for Argosy magazine (1930-1934). Some of these were collected in Whispering Sands (1981)....
