Cozy Mysteries by Theme
Cozy mysteries are fun! They concentrate on the mystery rather than gore or suspense, and are often light-hearted or funny. Many modern ones have some sort of theme, … Read more »
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Three Investigators Price Guide and Bibliography
The Three Investigators series is one of the most popular children’s mystery series of all time. Unlike other popular series, such as the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew, … Read more »
An Unkindness of Ravens. Ruth Rendell
An Unkindness of Ravens.Ruth Rendell Yet another modern female British mystery novelist who needs to have weird sex and/or a severely troubled childhood thrown into the plot. In … Read more »
Death and Dishonor. Iaian Pears.
Death and Dishonor.Iaian Pears.Scribner’s: 1996. Jonathan and Flavia Argyll are the husband and wife team of this mystery author, who is an art history professor. As we saw … Read more »
The Five Flamboys. Francis Beeding.
The Five Flamboys.Francis Beeding. Little, Brown: 1929. This mystery/adventure gets a regular guy involved in an international espionage scheme involving the overthrow of the Roumanian government. It’s truly … Read more »
H is for Homicide. Sue Grafton.
‘H’ is for Homicide. Sue Grafton. The two complaints that I hear most often about Grafton are that she’s wordy and that all her books are alike. I … Read more »
Too Many Cooks. Rex Stout.
Too Many Cooks.Rex Stout This is a Nero Wolfe mystery. Wolfe is a big fat detective, and his stories generally have a gastronomical lean. The great chefs of … Read more »
The Hunters and the Hunted. Lesley Egan.
The Hunters and the Hunted.Lesley Egan.Doubleday: 1979. The only reason I read this is that I happened to notice it takes place in Glendale, California, the city I … Read more »
The Last Camel Died at Noon. Elizabeth Peters.
The Last Camel Died at Noon.Elizabeth Peters.Warner, 1991. The worst elements of series writing abound here: flat characters, inside jokes, repeat jokes (I mean, repeated within the same … Read more »
The Moonstone. by Wilkie Collins.
The Moonstoneby Wilkie Collins. One of my favorite boks of all time. Collins was a friend of Dickens, who acted in two lays written by Collins. Moonstone is … Read more »