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 »
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 »
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 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.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. 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. 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 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.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.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 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 »