Pretty Sinister Books

THE STORY: Eve Minary has suffered a nervous breakdown and been in a catatonic state for seven years ever since the death of her father Jud...

THE STORY: Dr. Basil Willing encounters a man claiming to be him when he stops in a local cigar shop for some cigarettes. Intrigued he fo...

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...

THE STORY: Wannabe musician Harry Jukes is desperate to impress shallow Mona who is too easily impressed by expensive sports cars and mov...

Dr. Emmanuel Cellini is one of the least known in John Creasey’s teeming crowd of series characters. The saga of Cellini begins with Cunnin...

There's another lunatic on the lam in the opening chapters of Madmen Die Alone (1938) and Dr. Richards doesn't want any bad publi...

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