Pretty Sinister Books

Part of discovering so-called forgotten writers and their books is that the discovery is actually more of a recovery. These books already ex...

THE STORY:   James "Peter" Piper, bespectacled, lanky reporter "with an ugly face" working for the Herald  somewhere in ...

"Wonder of wonders! Miracle of miracles!" This seems to be the year during which half of the books on my want list have turned up ...

THE STORY: Noel Ross, ex-police sergeant with Scotland Yard, has just ad an operation to remove shrapnel from his head. He and his wife tak...

THE STORY   Elmer Bliss, reporter, is hired by a mysterious gentleman called Philander Summerfield to look into a recent Peter Somhers murde...

There will always be Sherlock Holmes pastiches.  It is the one type of mystery novel homage that seems to be pouring out of an eternal fount...

Misanthropic George Potterne is found shot in his back at his solitary retreat, a one room cottage known as The Lake House (1946) a five mi...

Reporters always seem to be the best crime fiction writers. Collin Brooks is one of better journalists turned detective novelists that I...

For the past two years I've seen an intriguing spike in modern writers trying their hand at a retro GAD-style locked room or impossible ...