Apologies for the longer and more autobiographical post than usual this time. Ruth Rendell!   I didn’t red Ruth Rendell until I was 19. Ther...

When my grandfather died in January, I inherited his collection of 1940s and 1950s crime fiction, and am reading through them. I started wit...

  Surprise! I warned you this blog would be sporadic. COVID-19 and associated problems have wrought havoc on people close to me and on me, a...

Oh, my God. I quite enjoyed  Agatha and the Truth of Murder  in 2018, which most people hated. So, when everyone said Agatha and the Curse ...

A fun tribute to the Sherlock Holmes canon, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter (2019) is set in a fantasy world of magic, steampunk, and L...

Another mystery dossier by Dennis Wheatley and J.G. Links – you get the physical clues and sift through them to solve the crime –  Who Kill...

Subtitled “A Harlam Mystery”,  The Conjure-Man Dies  was first published in 1932, just two years before its author’s early death. It is the...