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Short reviews of classic mystery novels and stories that are worth reading and re-reading.
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A local hero is kidnapped, and a shocking murder is only one of many unexpected results. Investigator Anthony Bathurst uncovers the ugly tru...
A private detective and a small group of survivors from a murderous wedding find themselves trapped with an apparently psychotic killer on a...
It sounded like the perfect story for a movie - a curse still working after 300 years. A macabre twist to a powerful drama - or simply bruta...
Short reviews of classic mystery novels and stories that are worth reading and re-reading.
Clever plotting, pointed dialogue and murder - what more could a reader want?
A car driven by a dead man with a cut throat...a lost gallows on a missing London street...John Dickson Carr's second mystery starring Henri...
Rabbi Small needed a break in his routine. An international bombing incident wasn't what he had in mind.
Nearly everyone in his family hated Sir Adam Braid. Only the old man's granddaughter loved him - and the old miser was cutting her out of hi...
On the Classic Mysteries podcast this week, Mr. and Mrs. North only want to draw up a new will, but it's their lawyer who gets murdered.
Newly appointed to Scotland Yard, Bobby Owen finds himself weighing motives, politics and amazing beauty as he hunts for a murderer who migh...
Another, earlier pre-Orient-Express train ride for Hercule Poirot comes complete with jewel robberies, blackmail, and murder on a luxury tra...
On the Classic Mysteries podcast this week, you might call it a portrait of the artist as a young...dog? Inspector Knollis had to decipher t...
On the Classic Mysteries blog, Scotland Yard Inspector Macdonald thought he was going on holiday in Vienna. So how did he wind up helping lo...
A grim solution to a grim problem: how to deal with a loathsome blackmailer who may also be a serial killer? For half-a-dozen young Englishm...
In Archie Goodwin's world view, the word that best fits Isabel Kerr is a four-letter word: doxy. The dictionary says, it defines "a woman wh...
The dead woman was a humble chemistry teacher at a girls' school. So, wonders Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan, why did she have a quarter-mil...
On the Classic Mysteries podcast this week, a review of some non-fiction - a book of essays about mysteries and the people who make them. "U...
Maigret stars in one of these holiday stories, while other associates of Maigret feature in two more tales of holiday crime and redemption.
Too bad about Joe Wilson. The itinerant traveling salesman had a secret. And it's only fair to point out that it turned out to be a deadly s...
The victim's body turned up under a tree in a park, the body unusually battered and bruised – but that's not what killed him; he appeared to...
It couldn't have been suicide - the victim was beheaded inside a watched and locked room - but the room was empty, except for the victim. Fr...
A theatrical and criminal problem for Ludovic Travers to solve.
Right from the start, it was clearly going to be an interesting case – the murder of an inoffensive little man with no apparent enemies, not...
What connection could there be between a gruesome fire in a London house and a ski holiday in Lech Am Arlberg in the Austrian Alps? The answ...
Princess Olga Karukhin escaped from Russia after the revolution. Was she murdered for her supposed collection of art objects?
The death of a two-bit hustler was just the tip of the iceberg – that iceberg being a delicate international dispute over a contested strip...
a mystery with artfully rearranged bodies & missing heads & eccentric characters & assorted mayhem - and funny as well.
Passersby watching the daily advertising show in French's Department Store window got a lot more than they expected when a dead body fell ou...
Claude Merivale admits he strangled his wife - but he says he did so while in a sleep so deep that everything he did, he did in a dream. Wil...
Lord Edgeware's wife threatened to kill him. Now His Lordship has been murdered - but his wife has an unbreakable alibi! Hercule Poirot is o...
Trostler was described by Ellery Queen as "the first important Teutonic sleuth." These early stories find Dagobert using logic and reason to...
Set in ancient China, Judge Dee must solve a couple of murders involving very powerful individuals - and some black-haired foxes.
Cécile had come to the Parisian police headquarters to tell her secret to Inspector Maigret. But Maigret, in the course of a busy day, lost...
What was the deadly secret of the book that forced Rena Austen to flee her home and husband and seek help from biblio expert Henry Gamadge?
Amid the turmoil of the late 1960s, Rabbi David Small deals with synagogue politics and the civil rights struggle within his Conservative co...
Bobby Owen was spending the weekend at Cambers, planning to advise Lady Cambers on ways to keep her valuable jewelry safe. But when he woke...
Mr. Mottram's life insurance would pay handsomely, whether he was murdered or died by accident. But they wouldn't pay for a suicide. So insu...
It was the kind of murder Los Angeles saw all too often. But this time, Homicide Detective Mendoza had a hunch that he had worked on a simil...
Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin travel to Montenegro, in the heart of Europe, to find the person who murdered Wolfe's longest and closest frie...
Inspector French hears a young woman's plea for help too late to save her - but when she is murdered, French must find out why a gang seems...
Ngaio Marsh is best known for her novels about Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn. This collection features short fiction - some with Alley...
On the Classic Mysteries podcast this week, a mysterious cryptogram, sudden death - and a shocking way to commit murder.
Henry Gamadge puts together a daring rescue for a woman held a virtual prisoner by her family. What was the secret worth killing for?
a murder in the Australian outback - and DI Napoleon Bonaparte - Bony - is on the case. Arthur Upfield's "Sinister Stones" reviewed.
Another of Catherine Aird's witty 'Calleshire Chronicles" mysteries with Inspector Sloan and company.
Miss Amanda Gipson was a fine researcher to investigate old murders. But what if an old killing made a new one necessary? Pam and Jerry Nort...
Eight fascinating short stories about cases investigated and solved by Judge Dee, a magistrate (and later court official) in T'ang Dynasty C...
"But that's impossible!" Or maybe not. Not when the story you're reading comes from Paul Halter, a modern French author with a gift for impo...
When a small group of neighbors is getting successful stock tips from a self-styled "psychic," sudden death may not be quite as accidental a...
Henry Clandon wanted to hire Ludovic Travers to find the war hero who saved his life. But there were a few obstacles - including murder.
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