Pretty Sinister Books

Supt. Ambrose Mahon comes to Corelia Bush Nursing Hospital to prevent a murder.  An anonymous note implies someone will die on night of May ...

THE STORY: Dr. Amos Truppen meticulously plans the death of Henry Updike in order to steal his formula for a medicine that supposedly c...

The forensic psychology subgenre was not well known or often utilized until the tail end of the Golden Age of Detection. It really only bec...

"Aged plagues! -- and yet you can't go to the length of sheer brutality in repelling them; and what is worse, one is driven to ac...

Reggie Fortune reminds me so much of a British version of Philo Vance. They both have an eccentric way of speaking, they both have quaint ex...

There is nothing more satisfying to a mystery novel addict like me than to chose a book fairly at random and from the first amazing senten...

"You couldn't ever expose Dr Dysert. [...] He's been too clever for too long. They believe in him, probably with a good deal mo...

UK 1st edition (Herbert Jenkins, 1938) Elizabeth Curtiss' debut mystery novel Nine Doctors and a Madman (1940) first came to my att...

There's trouble at Mayfield Sanitarium now that Dr. Carl Koenig, their kindly director is dead. Someone has bludgeoned him with a miniat...

US 1st edition (Bobbs Merrill, 1942) Kate Farr is about to start her new job as secretary to the Dean of Students at an unnamed medical ...