Pretty Sinister Books

"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...

Lonely war veteran Major Johnson while doing his best to be neighborly and social finds himself through utter chance implicated in the death...

THE STORY:   Anne Wordhead is concerned about the disappearance of her sister Elizabeth Ryan, a well known writer of sensational novels. She...

A wealthy bachelor who breeds and rents his prize cock-fighting rooter is found shot to death, a bullet in his head, in the doorway to the c...

Police procedural gives way to domestic melodrama then morphs into a full blown cat-and-mouse thriller in No Questions Asked (1949), Edna S...

THE STORY: Weary of the world of police work David Mallin is now in security work, his most recent assignment is to guard the artwork – in...

What a surprise it was to learn that this excellent detective novel was the work of a young economics professor who was teaching at the Un...

Here's another rerun for you pulled from the back files of Pretty Sinister Books. I read nearly all of the Jonathan Craig police proce...

This is my inaugural post for a new feature on people who wrote mysteries who were primarily known for a completely different profession. ...

THE STORY: Mary Turner befriends an elderly book collector and antique dealer while working at her new job in an antiquarian bookstore in...