Pretty Sinister Books

THE STORY: Donald Chadmore, newly released from prison for an assault charge has come to his uncle Theodore's home in order to protect ...

I may be cheating calling this a First Book, but it most definitely is this writer's only crime novel written for an adult audience. So ...

What’s your sign, girl? Is it compatible to mine? If your sign matches mine Think of what we'll have We'll be making babies togethe...

 Browsing through the pages of Robert Adey's Locked Room Murders I came across an obscure book from the early 20th century by an utterl...

Magic fans, impossible crime aficionados, and those interested in the parallels between mystery writers' use of misdirection and a mag...

After finding a five page long list (!) of Carolyn Well's work published in magazines from 1897 - 1940 I was curious to see the covers t...

THE STORY: Mystery writer James Stanley Hunt has been drowned in his bathtub. When he “wakes up” he discovers his wife Chili, a dancer in...

THE STORY:  A series of gruesome murders in which the victims are mutilated and bodies disposed of in quicklime are plaguing the denizens...

THE STORY: Johnny Saxon, once a highly popular short story writer, has given it all up to become a private eye. His latest case will take...