Blogs about Crime and mystery books

Robert B. Gillespie is, or perhaps was, an American writer who authored eight now largely forgotten, out-of-print crime, detective and thriller novels – published between 1979 and 1990. Only his first mystery novel appears to …

In early October I reviewed "This Won't Kill You", a novella in Three Men Out by Rex Stout. Today I am discussing the other two novellas in that book: "Invitation to Murder" and "The Zero …

It goes without saying that there are many fictional female detectives I’ve read and wished that, one, I could walk in her shoes—or just be her sidekick—and, two, that have inspired me in writing my …

It is that time of year again when alas I get one year older, but I also get to eat cake, open presents, welcome new additions to my TBR pile, and generally have a day …

Here’s the third in a series of read-and-watch-alongs for the Kino Cult Blu-Ray release The Classic Ghosts. Source: DVD Beaver After two excellent entries, we’ve come to one that’s still good, but not to the …

Reviewed by JONATHAN LEWIS: PEKING EXPRESS. Paramount Pictures, 1951. Joseph Cotten, Corinne Calvet, Edmund Gwenn, Marvin Miller, Benson Fong, Soo Yong. Director: William Dieterle. A remake of Shanghai Express (1932), William Dieterle’s Peking Express (1951) …

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 …