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 ...

THE STORY:   Charles Graham makes a visit to Chicago's Century of Progress exposition and while passing through the Belgravian Pavilion ...

"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 ...

There is nothing more upsetting than falling for the hype on a book jacket.  The Swan Island Murders (1930) with its striking Art Deco influ...

THE STORY:   Liz & Bob Macklin purchase an old home in Marshall, Massachusetts and begin an extensive rehab project transforming the glo...

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

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

THE STORY: William Yolland gets some news from a physician who has given him a mandatory exam for an insurance policy Yolland is hoping wil...