Mystery Monday: Murder, My Sweet Farewell, My Lovely First Edition Hollywood has been turning books into movies since its inception...

Mystery Monday: Who is Helen McCloy? Courtesy AZQuotes When one's parents are an author and a newspaper editor can a daughter ch...

Mystery Monday: Ada E. Lingo "A better-than-average mystery in which a girl reporter in a small Texas oil town turns detective and...

Mystery Monday: MC Beaton Ever heard of Marion Chesney? Probably not. How about M.C. Beaton? Probably so. Author MC Beaton M.C. ...

Mystery Monday: Who was Kurt Steel? Doesn't Kurt Steel sound like a great name for a Detective? In reality it was the pseudonym for m...

Mystery Monday: Edwy Searles Brooks Edwy Searles Brooks Authors have always used pen names. Some do so for anonymity to protect...

Mystery Monday: Phyllis Bentley Even though she was often compared to novelist Thomas Hardy, most of today's readers have never hea...

Mystery Monday: Foyle’s War I’m an anglophile – I love all things British. I watch BBC television, have a subscription to Britain m...

Mystery Monday: Who is F. Wills Croft? Thanks again to The Passing Tramp for introducing me to yet another author from the “Golden ...

Book Review: From This Moment "From this Moment" Today’s Mystery Monday book is From This Moment , Elizabeth Camden’s l...

As if I don’t have enough TBR (to be read) books on my nightstand, I continue to search for authors I’ve not heard of from the 1930s a...

Mystery Monday: Cecil John Charles Street I continue to look for detective and crime novels written in the 1930s and 1940s. I have stum...

Mystery Monday: Trixie Belden The Trixie Belden books were written between 1948 and 1986. Initially authored by Julie Campbell Tatham, t...

Mystery Monday: Phoebe Atwood Taylor Always on the lookout for mystery authors from the 1930s and 1940s, I recently stumbled on Phoebe A...

While looking for an author to showcase on Mystery Monday, I decided to research Anne Perry. Several of my friends and colleagues are avi...

German Post-War Fiction With the writing of my novella Love’s Harvest I have done a tremendous amount of research into Germany, the et...

Mystery Monday: The Disappearance of the L-8's Crew When the U.S. entered WWII, the Navy took over the operation of Goodyear’s fi...

Although less well known than S.S. Van Dine, Dashiell Hammett, or Raymond Chandler, Clyde B. Clason published ten books between 1936 and 19...

The 1944 movie “Laura” was based on the book by the same name authored by Vera Caspary. The movie was selected for preservation in the N...