The Locked Room: Classic Mysteries in Review: Fletch, Gregory McDonald

Evidence

Mystery*File

A PI Mystery Review by Ray O’Leary: PHILIP KETCHUM – Death in the Library. - REVIEWED BY RAY O’LEARY: PHILIP KETCHUM – Death in the Library. Timothy Y. Crowell, hardcover, 1937. Dell #1, paperback, 1943. This has some histori...
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My Reader's Block

The Midnight Library - *The Midnight Library* (2020) by Matt Haig From the book flap: *Between life and death there is a library. Up until now, Nora Seed's life has been ful...
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Do Authors Dream of Electric Books?

What I Did in March '24 -- Susan Price - What did I do in March?I was smitten, hip and eye. The Hip I'd had severe arthritis in my left hip for two or three years. I used to go to the gym and I...
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Type M for Murder

Drumroll... - Barbara here, finally. I have been AWOL from this blog for a month due to unexpected medical challenges but I am back!Albeit late and with a short post. I...
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The Rap Sheet

PaperBack: “The Ominous Orgy” - *Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider.* *The Ominous Orgy, by “Mallory T. Knight,” aka Bernhardt J. Hurwood (Award Books, 19...
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Criminal Element

Cooking the Books: Four-Alarm Homicide by Diane Kelly - House flipper Whitney Whitaker and her cousin and business partner, Buck, are looking for their next project when they find a historic firehouse in despera...
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Promoting Crime Fiction by Lizzie Hayes

Mysteries set at Conferences. - I was at a conference at the weekend and someone said 'are there any mysteries set at conferences'. I have found a few.
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Ontos

Hoch Goes Off-trail - *"The Seventh Assassin" and "The Seventieth Number."* *By Edward D. Hoch (1930-2008; A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection HERE).* *First appearance: EQM...
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In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel

The Two Deaths Of Ruth Lyle (2024) by Nick Louth - Fifty years ago, a young woman was killed in Ilfracombe, stabbed through the heart by a sharp metal crucifix. The killer was sent to jail and Ruth Lyle was...
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Mystery Fanfare

Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, and Ben Kingsley: Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club - Three of the four leading roles in the film adaptation of Richard Osman’s *The Thursday Murder Club* have been cast with *Helen Mirren, **Pierce Brosnan, ...
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Beneath the Stains of Time

The Hit List: Top 5 Intriguing Pieces of Impossible Crime Fiction That Vanished into Thin Air - Earlier this year, I put together a depressing list of our genre's so-called "lost media" section, "The Hit List: Top 10 Works of Detective Fiction That ...
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'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

The Alphabet Murders - 1965 film review - One of the very first crime novels I ever read was Agatha Christie's *The ABC Murders*. I absolutely loved the story. It was my grandmother's copy and I...
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MYSTERIES in PARADISE

Review: NO STRANGERS HERE, Carlene O'Connor - - this edition borrowed from my local library in large print - #1 in County Kerry Mystery series - first printed in 2022 - Large print e...
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Vintage Pop Fictions

Dell Holland's The Far Out Ones - *The Far Out Ones* by Dell Holland is included in Stark House’s three-novel paperback edition A Beatnik Trio. It was published in 1963. The authorship of ...
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Death Can Read

Anthony Abbot : The Creeps, 1939 (La soglia della paura. Italian Translator : Igor Longo. Mondadori, 2008) aka (Being a Full Statement About the ) Crimes at Buzzards Bay - After a long time, we return to review a novel by Anthony Abbot. In this case of the eight novels he published, this is the penultimate. *The Creeps*, ...
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The Cozy Mystery List Blog

April 22 to April 28 - Here is the list of new releases for April 22 to April 28! Diane Kelly: Four-Alarm Homicide (6th in the House-Flipper Mysteries) Leslie Langtry: Museum of ...
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The Passing Tramp

Coronet Crowns the 1942 Kings and Queens of Crime - In 1942 an American digest, *Coronet Magazine* ran an interesting "portfolio of personalities" entitled *Merchants of Murder*, in which nine popular myst...
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The Dusty Bookcase

Morley Callaghan's Red Ryan Rocket - *More Joy in HeavenMorley CallaghanNew York: Random House, 1937278 page**s* It's been decades since Intro to CanLit II, my second introduction to Cana...
1 week ago
Alpha-60 Books

Never Kill a Cop (John B. West, 1961) - What a difference does it make when I know in advance that the book I'm about to read is going to suck! I remember reading one of the Rocky Steele series l...
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Killer Covers

Another Look: “The D.A. Breaks an Egg” -
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Tony Renner: Artist

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Small Crimes

More Julius Katz and Archie On sale now! - "The puzzles are clever, and Zeltserman plays fair with readers. Stout devotees will be delighted with this loving homage." Publishers Weekly (starred ...
2 months ago
Pretty Sinister Books

The Glass Heart - Marty Holland - Down on his luck Curt Blair is waiting out a rainstorm in a “ritzy hash joint” just outside of Hollywood, USA when he steals a fancy camel hair overcoat ...
6 months ago
In Reference to Murder

Media Murder for Monday - It's the start of a new week and that means it's time for a brand-new roundup of crime drama news: THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES Roundtable Entertainment has green...
7 months ago
Pfui

"The Doorbell Rang," Previewed by Lewis Nichols, New York Times, October 24, 1965 - From the *New York Times*, October 24, 1965: "Nero has been solving sinister problems since "Fer-de-Lance" in 1934. "The Doorbell Rang" is the 30th Ner...
1 year ago
Ivebeenreadinglately

On John Wyndham's "cosy catastrophe" novels (from 2008) - *I wrote this in late 2008 on spec for a publication, but it was never published. My notes remind me that after writing it I came across a post on the Peng...
2 years ago
Writers No One Reads

Plenty of people read Dino Buzzati, which is maybe why these... - Plenty of people read Dino Buzzati, which is maybe why these books are always hard to find: Restless Nights and The Siren, two story collections transl...
2 years ago
Classic Mysteries

The Agatha Awards - From somewhere in Cyberspace, the winners of this year's Agatha Awards for mystery writing were announced this evening at a virtual convention of mystery w...
2 years ago
The Post Modern Pulp Blog

New Release: THEY KILL FOR GOLD - So, my first new book is out, a fantasy novella that plays heavily into the 80's style, tabletop fantasy role-playing games media tie-in novel fiction vi...
3 years ago
a hot cup of pleasure

A New Home @ WordPress - Thanks for your visits and encouragement over the years. The blog has now been shifted to WordPress: https://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/ Please ...
4 years ago
Crime Always Pays

On Writing and Jazz - Set during the Jazz Age, THE LAMMISTERS is a novel that plunders the literary canon in the manner of a starved child let loose in a sweetshop. Of all its ...
4 years ago
Mysterious Press

Ben Crandel Returns - Murray Sinclair's Ben Crandel series makes a return in print and ebook formats.
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Detectives Beyond Borders

Linwood Barclay, Ross Macdonald, and me: What I shot and thought at Harrogate, Part II - *Linwood Barclay signs a book foran adoring fan. Photo by PeterRozovsky by special agreementwith Detectives Beyond Borders.* I’ve never been able to g...
5 years ago
Tipping My Fedora

Arrivederci - Hope you all have a restful and loving Holiday Season and a great New Year. As I won’t be blogging again any time soon, this is something of a farewell. Pe...
6 years ago
Vanished Into Thin Air

Hake Talbot : Rim of the Pit, 1944 - Henning Nelms was born in Baltimore in 1900. He taught dramatic Literature at Middlebury College and Pennsylvania State University, and conducted several t...
6 years ago
Past Offences

Christmas has come early… - … courtesy of the British Library. Two more sleeps before opening though.Filed under: Witness Statements
6 years ago
Hi-Fi Sci-Fi

Spider-Man Comes Out to Aunt May - From July 2002, an excerpt from a larger piece: A batch of old favorite comic books picked up at a Labor Day tailgate sale last year led to a conversation...
6 years ago
Classic Mystery Hunt

Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford - [image: Image result for rise of the robots book] When acquired by FB for billions of dollars Watsapp employed 55 employees, Youtube had 150 odd employees w...
7 years ago
Book Dirt

Jesus and Caligari: a Review of Upton Sinclair’s They Call Me Carpenter - They Call Me Carpenter by Upton Sinclair I confess that I never knew much about Upton Sinclair beyond the fact that he wrote the meat-packing industry exp...
7 years ago
Ed Gorman's blog

Catching up with Max Allan Collins - *1. Tell us about your current novel. * There are a couple of things that will become available soon. One is the complete version of the ROAD TO PERDIT...
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