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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...

Finally, I can pay back a frequent plugger of my posts. Having read a review of The Stranger Diaries  (2018) on the highly entertaining an...

WARNING: This post is loaded with SPOILERS. Stop now if you know nothing about Laura , the book or the movie, and don't want its most un...

"I am in one of my tempers tonight. I want a husband to vex, or a child to beat, or something of that sort. Do you ever like to see t...

Work: Armadale by Wilkie Collins (Harper & Brothers, 1866) 1st US edition Artists: George H Thomas (drawings) and William Thomas...

Rustication by Charles Palliser W.W. Norton & Company ISBN: 978-0-393-08872-4 336 pp. $25.95 Publication date: November 4, 2013 ...

The first thing that struck me as remarkable about Murder Yet to Come (1930) was the author's gutsy use of The Moonstone and several ...

Gilbert Worth, adulterous husband and acerbic novelist, is found dead in his study with a bullet in his temple and the smoking gun clenche...

Imagine if you can a crime fiction pastiche that is a mash-up of Wilkie Collins and John Dickson Carr and you will have Harwood's second...