Pretty Sinister Books

Lookee here-- It's a book that was recently reprinted and one that you can actually purchase without having to take out a second mortgag...

Clifford Witting tries his hand at a master criminal style thriller in The Case of the Busy Bees (1952). This mystery is not a Holmesian ...

1st UK paperback, 1940s As some wise old person once said to me ages ago "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do a week from ...

James Ronald received quite a bit of praise with his first few detective novels from writer August Derleth to novelist and book reviewer H...

Fans of Foyle's War , the British television series about a policeman who during World War 2 finds himself solving crimes involving mi...

"He's deep, is the Inspector." John Rutherford, bookseller and sometime fiction writer, discovers the bludgeoned corpse of...