Pretty Sinister Books

In lieu of Friday's Forgotten Books this week I have a guest post by blogger, mystery novelist, genre historian and friend, Martin Edw...

THE STORY: Clark Rodman is fascinated with the apartment across the alley. He watches with curious intensity the occupants and in particu...

This morning when I checked my email I got an alert than one of my "want list" books was available for purchase. This happens all ...

It's parents' weekend at Craiglea, an English boarding school for boys, at the start of Death Goes to School (1936). Several events...

The prolific and multi-partnered Richard Wilson Webb teamed up with Martha Mott Kelley under his Q Patrick pseudonym and wrote two novels....

I'm on vacation in Washington state (first time here, only seven more states left and I'll have been to all 50 at least once) and di...

Sometimes I come across a book in my reading and I wonder how it was received upon it's first publication. So I trundle through the inte...

The young and rugged Hugh Wheeler The Q. Patrick pseudonym is one of those puzzling oddities of the mystery writing realm that has nothi...

Just for a lark Joe and I went on an estate sale road trip and hit about nine sales in one afternoon.  Most of them were a complete bust as ...