Pretty Sinister Books

I'm putting the sinister back into the Pretty Sinister Books blog this month as I tear through a pile of old horror novels and detective...

UK 1st edition (Bodley Head, 1927) Provocative illustration of a character who appears nowhere in the book There are a handful of Ch...

Today's Friday's Forgotten Book post is on two books that belong more to Alternative Mystery category and are forgotten with good ...

Imagine a mystery novel that is an extravagant conglomeration of Planet of the Apes, The Island of Dr. Moreau and that creepy cult classi...

Continuing my salute to Alternative Facts Week I offer this pan of a mystery loaded with them. It belongs to the dubious pantheon of Alter...

The last time I wrote about a book by Irina Karlova ( Dreadful Hollow , reviewed here ) I talked about its preposterous vampire plot and t...

Chances are if you are asked to name one woman mystery writer from the early twentieth century you wouldn't immediately think of Natalie...

Claim of the Fleshless Corpse (1937). Great title, isn't it? The title alone would have got me to read the plot blurb. Conjures up a...

I continue my reading of the Scarlet Thread Mysteries with this oddball book with an oddball title. Turns out it's by a writer who is ...