Following the success of our 1930s Top Ten towards the end of last year my online mystery bookclub has moved onto the 1940s. Again the one criterion is that an author (including any pseudonyms…| Countdown John's Christie Journal
This month, my Book Club decided to read 1929’s Murder by the Clock, the second mystery novel by Rufus King and the first of eleven books featuring a most unusual policeman, Lieutenant Va…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
I have to tell you that, health-wise, for me February has been a bust. There was no glamor to it: this wasn’t COVID or the flu or la grippe. This bug was out to prove that you can feel just as…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
As soon as we received our invitations to take part in the 2024 edition of Reprint of the Year over at Kate’s blog, Cross-Examining Crime, I knew that one of my books had to be Ellery Queen’s Cat o…| Ah Sweet Mystery!