Pretty Sinister Books

Jimmie Haswell receives a note from his friend Capt. Gregory Bruden inquiring about the legality of finding something of value in a home in ...

"If there's any flumdiddling of the police to be done, I'm the one to do it." --Sir Henry Merrivale in My Late Wives ...

Here's a good example of giving a writer another chance. I attempted to read two Christopher Bush books in the past and each time I was ...

I lied. I said I was going to write up a Neglected Detectives entry on Jimmie Haswell, but this book is so rich and different that I had...

Herbert Adams' first mystery novel is typical of the kind of crime fiction that was in ample supply in the early 1920s – a blend of th...