Pretty Sinister Books

THE STORY:   Sentence Deferred (1939) tells of how circumstantial evidence and coincidence can complicate a murder investigation. Two men, ...

THE STORY:   In this seventh Judge Peck detective novel August Derleth once again revisits his favorite plot motif - the family decimation m...

 1st UK edition, artwork by Chris Yates This was one of those books I came across because of a comment on one of the many blogs I rea...

With only a few quibbles I think Sign of Fear (1935) may be the best of the Judge Peck books. Derleth's series about the Wisconsin jud...

Happy Birthday, August Derleth. I was too late with this blog by two years to get on the bandwagon with the celebration of his centennial bi...

This is the second of detective novels in a series of ten that feature Derleth's little known second series detective - Judge Ephraim Pe...