Blogs about Crime and mystery books

So for the past three, four months, I've been reading, rating and reviewing impossible crime novels and short stories that were nominated in the first round of voting for the "New Locked Room Library" – …

Three years ago I purchased Deadly Anniversaries, edited by Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller, so that I could read "Chin Yong-Yun Sets the Date" by S.J. Rozan. Chin Yong-Yun is Lydia Chin's mother in the …

It’s Christmas time and Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are thrilled to be spending it in the city of Tupelo, just a few hours’ drive away from their own hometown of Zinnia, Mississippi. The …

Back in 2019 I posted an epic ranked list of Christmas mysteries. As and when I have found more to read, I have added these to the list, which currently features 40 books. Some years …

We’ve reached the fifth and final installment of our read-and-watch-alongs for the Kino Cult Blu-Ray release The Classic Ghosts. Source: DVD Beaver This one is really just a “watch-along,” because this episode does not seem …

Reviewed by JONATHAN LEWIS: TANGIER. Universal Pictures, 1946. Maria Montez, Robert Paige, Sabu, Preston Foster, Louise Allbritton, Kent Taylor, J. Edward Bromberg, Reginald Denny. Director: George Waggner. Capitalizing on the American movie-going audience’s love for …

Michigan writer and intellectual Russell Kirke (1918-1994) has been called the Forgotten Father of American Conservatism and the greatest twentieth-century conservative man of letters, but, outside of strictly politics, he was also a proponent and …

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 then flees intending to sell the …

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That was fast. The $10 off sale at Amazon on Arkham House Ephemera: The Classic Years only lasted a couple of days. Now they’ve got it at $35.28, creeping back toward the original $40 retail …