Pretty Sinister Books

Another re-post from the archives.  This week I'm re-running a review of a unique historical mystery book, actually a collection of dete...

The Tuesday Night Bloggers are saluting historical mysteries this month. I don't often read these anymore, but when I come across excep...

Sheer serendipity today! In researching the life and works of Jean Toussaint-Samat, a new to me author whose book The Dead Man at the Wi...

Here's a rerun for the Tuesday Night Blogger's continuation of our month long exploration of poison in Golden Age detective nov...

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly, and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with ...

Two rival physics professors die within hours of one another after attending a faculty function at the home of the Dunster College's p...

Throughout the 1920s there was a subgenre of popular fiction that I've never bothered reading. It also made its way into films and rad...

The shipboard mystery or nautical mystery novel is just as prevalent in the Golden Age as those set on a train. Death on the Nile may very ...

US 1st edition (Dodd Mead, 1963) Part of the mystique of foreign travel is the total immersion in a different culture. A true traveler d...