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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...

The Mystery of the Talking Skull

  The Mystery of the Talking Skull (1969) by Robert Arthur Jupiter Jones, chief investigator of The Three Investigators detective agency, d...

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...

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, ...

Murder Begins at Home

  Murder Begins at Home (1949) by Delano Ames Jane and Dagobert Brown arrive in the United States with the aim of visiting his Aunt Clotild...

The Five Red Herrings (audio version)

  The Five Red Herrings (1931) by Dorothy L. Sayers [read by Patrick Malahide]  I'm still treating myself to audio presentations of the...

Clutch of Constables

  Clutch of Constables (1968) by Ngaio Marsh Troy Alleyn, wife of Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard, decides to take a small break...

Death Stops the Frolic

  Death Stops the Frolic (aka Turmoil in Zion ; 1943) by George Bellairs (Harold Blundell) The village of Swarebridge is all set to celebra...

The Murderer Who Wanted More

 The Murderer Who Wanted More (1943) by Baynard Kendrick Bonnie Critten was mugged in her apartment's vestibule. A few days later she w...

Midnight Sailing

  Midnight Sailing (1938) by Lawrence G. Blochman It's the late 1930s and the world is heading for another global war. Dorothy Bonner...

The Egyptologist

  The Egyptologist (2004) by Arthur Phillips The first storyline opens in Egypt,1922. Ralph Trilipush, Egyptologist lately of Harvard, is w...

Murder at the Spring Ball

  Murder at the Spring Ball (2021) by Benedict Brown Set in England, 1925. After his beloved wife's death, Christopher Prentiss's g...

Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man

 Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man (2016) by William Shatner with David Fisher From the book flap: Leonard Nimoy and ...

Cut to the Quick

  Cut to the Quick (1993) by Kate Ross Julian Kestrel--dandy, man about town. Devoted to the gaming tables and the latest Regency-era fashi...

An Old Betrayal

 An Old Betrayal (2013) Charles Lenox's detective protégé, Lord John Dallington, is very sick and asks Lenox to meet a client at Charin...