"The Murders Near Mapleton," by Brian Flynn
A local hero is kidnapped, and a shocking murder is only one of many unexpected results. Investigator Anthony Bathurst uncovers the ugly tru...
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Classic Mysteries
Short reviews of classic mystery novels and stories that are worth reading and re-reading.
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20 of 100 episodes"The Case of the Seven Sneezes," by Anthony Boucher
A private detective and a small group of survivors from a murderous wedding find themselves trapped with an apparently psychotic killer on a...
"The Condamine Case," by Moray Dalton
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...
"Murder in Married Life," by Anne Morice
Short reviews of classic mystery novels and stories that are worth reading and re-reading.
"Death in the Grand Manor," by Anne Morice.
Clever plotting, pointed dialogue and murder - what more could a reader want?
"The Lost Gallows," by John Dickson Carr
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...
"Tuesday the Rabbi Took Off," by Harry Kemelman
Rabbi Small needed a break in his routine. An international bombing incident wasn't what he had in mind.
"The Case of Sir Adam Braid," by Molly Thynne
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...
"A Key to Death," by Frances and Richard Lockridge
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.
"Helen Passes By," by E.R. Punshon
Newly appointed to Scotland Yard, Bobby Owen finds himself weighing motives, politics and amazing beauty as he hunts for a murderer who migh...
"The Mystery of the Blue Train," by Agatha Christie
Another, earlier pre-Orient-Express train ride for Hercule Poirot comes complete with jewel robberies, blackmail, and murder on a luxury tra...
"The Laughing Dog," by Francis Vivian
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...
"Murder in Vienna," by E.C.R. Lorac
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...
"The Orange Axe," by Brian Flynn
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...
"Death of a Doxy," by Rex Stout
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...
"Some Die Eloquent," by Catherine Aird
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...
"Unusual Suspects: Selected Non-Fiction," by Joseph Goodrich
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...
"A Maigret Christmas and Other Stories," by Georges Simenon
Maigret stars in one of these holiday stories, while other associates of Maigret feature in two more tales of holiday crime and redemption.
"Halfway House," by Ellery Queen
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 Spiked Lion," by Brian Flynn
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...