Beneath the Stains of Time: The Leopard Died Too (1957) by Nigel Brent

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Leopard Died Too (1957) by Nigel Brent: "Nigel Brent," a pseudonym of Cecil Gordon Eugene Wimhurst, is one of those obscure, practically forgotten writers who published a...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: At the Table of Wolves: Kay Kenyon

Bitter Tea and Mystery: At the Table of Wolves: Kay Kenyon:   For the 52 Book Club Challenge , I asked my son to suggest a genre for me to read (Prompt 37: Genre Chosen for you by someone else). He ch...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Casebook of Jonas P. Jonas and Other Mysteries (2012) by E.X. Ferrars

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Casebook of Jonas P. Jonas and Other Mysteries...: " Elizabeth Ferrars " ("E.X. Ferrars") is the pseudonym of prolific, long-lived British mystery writer, Morna Brown, who...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder Breaks Trail (1943) by Eunice Mays Boyd

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder Breaks Trail (1943) by Eunice Mays Boyd: In 2022, I compiled a post, " Curiosity is Killing the Cat: Detective Novels That Need to Be Reprinted ," crammed with criminally ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: 77 North (2023) by D.L. Marshall

Beneath the Stains of Time: 77 North (2023) by D.L. Marshall: Last year, I did my best Herodotus impression and wrote up " The Locked Room Mystery & Impossible Crime Story in the 21st Century: ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: SS-GB: Len Deighton

Bitter Tea and Mystery: SS-GB: Len Deighton: SS-GB is an alternate history in which England has been invaded by Germany.  Summary from the flyleaf (dust jacket) of my edition: 1941, and...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Adventures of the Puzzle Club (2022) by Ellery Queen and Josh Pachter

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Adventures of the Puzzle Club (2022) by Ellery...: The New York cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee were the heart and brain behind one of the most important names in the American dete...

Lesa's Book Critiques: THE TRAITOR BESIDE HER BY MARY ANNA EVANS

 Lesa's Book Critiques: THE TRAITOR BESIDE HER BY MARY ANNA EVANS

Beneath the Stains of Time: Prague Fatale (2011) by Philip Kerr

Beneath the Stains of Time: Prague Fatale (2011) by Philip Kerr: Philip Kerr was a British author who garnered wide success with his World War II thriller series about Bernhard "Bernie" Gunther,...

The Hard Word: "ALL ABOUT TRUST": AN INTERVIEW WITH BLACK WOLF'S KATHLEEN KENT

 The Hard Word: "ALL ABOUT TRUST": AN INTERVIEW WITH BLACK WOLF'S KATHLEEN KENT

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Student Body (1958) by Nigel FitzGerald

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Student Body (1958) by Nigel FitzGerald: In the previous blog-post, I looked at Nigel FitzGerald's second of only two impossible crime and locked room mystery novels, Suffer a W...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder on Tour (1965) by Ton Vervoort

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder on Tour (1965) by Ton Vervoort: Peter Verstegen was a Dutch editor, translator and writer who, under the pseudonym " Ton Vervoort ," penned a regrettably short-li...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Funeral in the Fog (2020) by Edward D. Hoch

Beneath the Stains of Time: Funeral in the Fog (2020) by Edward D. Hoch: Crippen & Landru announced Edward D. Hoch 's first collection of Simon Ark short stories since The Quests of Simon Ark (1984) back...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in a Peking Studio (1976) by Chin Shunshin

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in a Peking Studio (1976) by Chin Shunshin: Chin Shunshin was a Taiwanese-Japanese novelist and translator who achieved fame as a writer of historical novels, " concerning China, ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Anthrax Island (2021) by D.L. Marshall

Beneath the Stains of Time: Anthrax Island (2021) by D.L. Marshall: Observe the book title of today's review, note the publication date and, most important of all, take a close look at the cover and you&#...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Black Edged (1939) by Brian Flynn

Beneath the Stains of Time: Black Edged (1939) by Brian Flynn: So far, March has not been the month of the traditional detective story with reviews of 1970s retro-pulp , vampire murders , pastiches and ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Apocryphal Plots: "Omar Khayyam, Detective" (1960) by Theodore Mathieson

Beneath the Stains of Time: Apocryphal Plots: "Omar Khayyam, Detective" (1960)...: A few years ago, I reviewed Theodore Mathieson's " Leonardo da Vinci, Detective " (1959), one of the more well-known, reprinte...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Travelers: Chris Pavone

Bitter Tea and Mystery: The Travelers: Chris Pavone: The Washington Post describes The Travelers as a Hitchcockian thriller, and points to similar elements in two of Hitchcock's films, No...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Darkest Fathoms: "Caribbean Crisis" (1962) by Desmond Reid

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Darkest Fathoms: "Caribbean Crisis" (1962) by ...: The Derek Smith Omnibus (2014) is one of the most important publications to have come out of John Pugmire's Locked Room International ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery Review: October Men by Anthony Price

Bitter Tea and Mystery: October Men: Anthony Price: This is the fourth book in the David Audley series, a cold war espionage series set in the UK (and other countries, depending on the book) a...