• Mystery

    The Mysterious Mr. Badman Is A Masterpiece of Macabre Humor

    Martin Edwards restores a long-forgotten crime novel to the prominence it deserves

    December 4, 2023  By Martin Edwards
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    Tis the Season to be (Fictionally) Murdered

    Catriona McPherson Chooses her Top Holiday Crime Novels

    December 1, 2023  By Catriona McPherson
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    All the (Crime) World's a Stage: The Irresistible Pairing of Mysteries and the Theater

    Martin Edwards on the beloved trope of murder against a theatrical backdrop, from Shakespearean maestros to community players

    December 1, 2023  By Martin Edwards
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    7 Great Cozy Mysteries Set in the Fall

    Autumn is the season for sweaters, changing leaves, and curling up with a good mystery.

    November 29, 2023  By Amber Camp
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    On The Rise, Fall, and Seemingly Inexplicable Appeal of Golden-Age Sleuth Philo Vance

    Leslie Klinger on a lesser-known work by S.S. Van Dine and what "The Canary Murder Case" says about its detective and creator

    November 29, 2023  By Leslie S. Klinger
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    The Orchestral Stirrings of Death on the Down Beat, a Musician's Murder Mystery

    On the well-known musician who brought something new to the world of Golden Age detective fiction, and his magnum opus.

    November 29, 2023  By Martin Edwards
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    "The Mousetrap": Still Going Strong After 28,000 Performances

    "[I]t does what theater is meant to do: engage our emotions, not just our little gray cells"

    November 28, 2023  By Maya Corrigan
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    Literary Fiction Can Be Murder

    Or, a list of mysteries in which bookish people must solve crimes at bookish events

    November 28, 2023  By V. M. Burns
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    The White Priory Murders, A Christmas Mystery That Deserves To Be Remembered

    Martin Edwards considers a classic holiday murder mystery from the king of locked room crime novels, John Dickson Carr

    November 28, 2023  By Martin Edwards
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    Agatha Christie’s Most Romantic Murder Mysteries

    Lily Sparks ranks the mystery master's novels from the most light and frothy to the darkest and most deeply tortured

    November 27, 2023  By Lily Sparks
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