Pretty Sinister Books

THE STORY:   Inspector Jack Grief and John Finnegan, a forensic chemist, join forces to solve two baffling poisoning murders that seem impos...

THE STORY: Chief Inspector Michael "Napper" Tandy attends a party at the home of musician John Farnham for what he thinks will be...

THE STORY: Inspector Michael Tandy makes his debut in Death Walks Softly (1938) an excellent example of three subgenres:  police procedura...

Today for a change we have a legitimate "Left Inside" find.  I was sort of cheating for the past couple of months using inscriptio...

THE STORY:   Intensely disliked, but extremely popular and financially profitable, novelist Emmanuel Cortal is murdered in his unique glass ...

THE STORY: Sgt Johnny Lamb and his superior Inspector Cross are teamed up an intriguing case of a murdered man found with a mutilated fac...

THE STORY: Oscar Bilkin, grocer and fishmonger in the village of Halingford, receives an anonymous letter warning he and his family to ...

For one reason or another in the world of popular fiction some publishers and agents suggest prolific authors resort to using pseudonyms, es...

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 ...

Dubbed "the toughest woman in Christendom" by reporter Dick Lodden, Palmyra Pym is the original badass police woman. She began...

The dedication to The Moon Murders (1935), Nigel Morland's debut as a crime fiction author, is to his mentor Edgar Wallace who he also ...