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The Castle Island Case

  The Castle Island Case (1937) by F. Van Wyck Mason [pictures by Henry Clay Gipson] Major Roger Allenby, ex-Army Intelligence and current ...

The Man in the Moonlight

  The Man in the Moonlight (1940) by Helen McCloy The Man in the Moonlight is one of my favorite subgenres in mysteries--the academic myste...

Inspector's Holiday

  Inspector's Holiday (1971) by Richard Lockridge Inspector M. L. Heimrich and his wife Susan are booked for a leisurely Mediterranean ...

Death of an Angel

  Death of an Angel (1955) by Frances & Richard Lockridge Pam & Jerry North find themselves plunged into a mystery in the theater wo...

The Devil in Music

  The Devil in Music (1997) by Kate Ross In a flashback to four years ago, Ross starts the story with Lodovico Malvezzi, an autocratic Ital...

Murder Roundabout (spoilerish)

  Murder Roundabout (1966) by Richard Lockridge The lovely Annette Weaver ( née  LeBaron, film star) had thrown a picnic on the Fourth of J...

Home by Nightfall

  Home by Nightfall (2015) by Charles Finch Charles Lenox finds his attention divided in this ninth entry in the series. All of London is a...

The Laws of Murder

  The Laws of Murder (2014) by Charles Finch Charles Lenox has left Parliament and thrown his luck in with John Dallington, Polly Buchanan,...

Whom the Gods Love

  Whom the Gods Love (1995) by Kate Ross When Alexander Falkland is murdered in his own study while a house party was in full swing just a ...

Clue

  Clue (2018) by Paul Allor A little further down that internet rabbit hole, I found another graphic novel based on the classic board game ...

Clue: Candlestick

  Clue: Candlestick (2020) by Dash Shaw Shaw has taken the classic Clue board game and created a story based on the characters. There are c...

Death Treads Softly

  Death Treads Softly (1956) ~George Bellairs (Harold Blundell) Chief Inspector Littlejohn escorts Finlo Crennell, the ex-harbormaster of C...

The Corpse with the Grimy Glove

 The Corpse with the Grimy Glove (aka More Than One Serpent , 1938) by R. A. J. Walling This is the 15th entry in the Philip Tolefree serie...

Calamity at Harwood

  Calamity at Harwood (1945) by George Bellairs (Harold Blundell) The bulk of the story is set in 1939 and the war is just heating up for B...

The Ghost Finders

  The Ghost Finders (2021) ~Adam McOmber The Ghost Finders firm, founded by Phillip Langford, consists of Henry Caxton, Violet Asquith, and...

A Broken Vessel

  A Broken Vessel (1994) by Kate Ross Regency dandy Julian Kestrel is brought into a second mystery--this time by the sister of his valet, ...