Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 5 Favorite Mystery Short-Shorts

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 5 Favorite Mystery Short-Shorts: When patching together one of these lists, I always try to avoid the usual topic and opt for something slightly less obvious and original, ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Detective Novels from the 1950s

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Detective Novels fro...: The Golden Age of Detective Fiction is generally narrowed to the interwar period, roughly covering the 1920s and '30s, because the World...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Reprints from Rue Morgue Press

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Reprints from Rue Mo...:   This year marks the tenth anniversary of the permanent shuttering of our beloved, dearly departed Rue Morgue Press following a string of ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: 10 More Non-English Detective Novels That Need to Be Translated

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: 10 More Non-English Detective Novels...: In 2023, I posted " The Hit List: Top 10 Non-English Detective Novels That Need to Be Translated " going down a list of ten classi...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Hybrid Mysteries

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Hybrid Mysteries: In 2021, John Pugmire's Locked Room International published Masahiro Imamura's Shijinso no satsujin ( Death Among the Undead , 201...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in Retrospect: The Best and Worst of 2025

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in Retrospect: The Best and Worst of 2025:   So this has to be first "Murder in Retrospect" since 2019 not starting on somber or outright depressing note, because the first-...

The Hard Word: TOP TWENTY-FIVE FOR FIRST TWENTY-FIVE (20-16)

 The Hard Word: TOP TWENTY-FIVE FOR FIRST TWENTY-FIVE (20-16)

The Hard Word: TOP TWENTY-FIVE CRIME NOVELS OF THE LAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS (20-25)

 The Hard Word: TOP TWENTY-FIVE CRIME NOVELS OF THE LAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS (20-25)

In Reference to Murder: Mystery Melange - Thanksgiving Edition

In Reference to Murder: Mystery Melange - Thanksgiving Edition: Thriller author James Patterson and Bookshop.org are launching a literary award called the James Patterson and Bookshop.org Prize. The firs...

The Rap Sheet: Cogdill Chimes In

 The Rap Sheet: Cogdill Chimes In

In Reference to Murder: Mystery Melange

In Reference to Murder: Mystery Melange:   Book Art via Paper Anthology Sisters in Crime (SinC) announced the winner of the 2025 PRIDE Award for emerging LGBTQIA+ writers is Lizabe...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 7 Most Murderable "Victims" in Detective Fiction

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 7 Most Murderable "Victims" in D...: So over the past year, or two, the idea for a rogues' gallery of the classic detective fiction emerged from the comments left on some of...

SleuthSayers: Are You Running Out of Things to Read, or Watch? by John Floyd

SleuthSayers: Are You Running Out of Things to Read, or Watch?: If so, consider some of these. First, though . . . rewind eight days. Picture me having an e-conversation last week with a writer friend, ab...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Cases from Motohiro Katou's Q.E.D. vol. 26-50

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Cases from Motohiro ...: I reviewed the first volume, of fifty, in Motohiro Katou's Q.E.D. series back in 2018, reached the halfway mark (vol. 25) in May 2023 ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Locked Room Mystery Novels That Need to Be Reprinted

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Locked Room Mystery Novels Th...: In 2022, I posted an addendum to Nick Fuller's " Detective Stories to Reprint " entitled " Curiosity is Killing the Cat:...

SleuthSayers: Test the Best

SleuthSayers: Test the Best: This is my sixteenth review of the best short mysteries of the year. I am sure  the judges of Edgars, Derringers, etc. can relax since they ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in Retrospect: The Best and Worst of 2024

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in Retrospect: The Best and Worst of 2024:   Last year, I started " Murder in Retrospect: The Best and Worst of 2024 " with remembering Rupert Heath, of Dean Street Press , ...

In Reference To Murder: Mystery Melange 12/12/2024

 In Reference To Murder: Mystery Melange 12/12/2024

In Reference To Murder: Mystery Melange 12/5/2024

 In Reference To Murder: Mystery Melange 12/5/2024

Library Journal: Best Crime Fiction of 2024

 Library Journal: Best Crime Fiction of 2024