Tag Archives: crime fiction

November 26

New Release: Cover Stories ( Hollywood Ghostwriter Mystery #3) by Dakota Donovan

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Dakota Donovan’s third Hollywood Ghostwriter Mystery, COVER STORIES, was released on November 26, 2022, in Kindle and Paperback editions. ABOUT THE NOVEL: After a jury acquits Prima Powell of killing her husband, the beautiful TV star remains guilty in the court of public opinion. She hires Dakota Donovan to write her comeback project, but the […]

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October 09

The Detective Stories of Edgar Allan Poe featuring C. Auguste Dupin

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“It is because I liked Edgar Allan Poe’s stories so much that I began to make suspense films.” ALFRED HITCHCOCK “Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?” ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE “Mr. Poe has that indescribable something that men have agreed to call genius.” JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL “Poe constantly and inevitably produced […]

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Windy City Sinners

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September 15

Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories by P.G. Wodehouse

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The title story, “Death at the Excelsior,” introduces readers to British private detective Elliot Oaks and his more experienced boss Paul Snyder in P.G. Wodehouse’s only attempt at a detective story, which he pulls off with his signature comic twists and turns. The collection also offers a selection of other classic Wodehouse tales, including those […]

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September 14

The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne

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“…one of the three best mystery stories of all time.” ALEXANDER WOLCOTT “…an agreeable book, light, amusing in the Punch style, written with a deceptive smoothness that is not as easy as it looks.” RAYMOND CHANDLER ”This droll whodunit from the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh sparkles with witty dialogue, deft plotting, and an amusing cast. In […]

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September 11

WINDY CITY SINNERS, a magic realism crime novel by Melanie Villines

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Part crime caper à la Donald Westlake, part magic realism tale in the spirit of Gabriel García Márquez, part John Kennedy Toolesque hijinks and high comedy, Windy City Sinners offers mystery and mayhem with fun and froth mixed in for good measure. The story takes place on the Far Northwest Side of Chicago, right on the edge […]

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September 11

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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“It is hard to conceive of a more extreme character than Sherlock Holmes…with his monomaniacal focus on crime, fits of depression, cocaine injections, clouds of tobacco smoke, melancholic violin-playing, and bursts of furious energy once the game is afoot. Holmes is a brilliant creation, but he is excessive in every way. And Holmes’ cases are […]

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September 11

Father Brown Mysteries (Volume 1): The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton

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Mystery stories set in pre-WWI London, featuring Father Brown, a Roman Catholic priest with deep insight into criminals and crime — the Lt. Columbo of his day. “[Father Brown] is one of the greatest of all great detective figures…His field of knowledge is human nature, and his skills are observation, reason, and common sense.” KINGSLEY […]

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September 10

Father Brown Mysteries (Volume 2): Ten Classic Cases by G.K. Chesterton

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“[Father Brown] is one of the greatest of all great detective figures…His field of knowledge is human nature, and his skills are observation, reason, and common sense.” KINGSLEY AMIS “The Father Brown stories are brilliantly written in a style richly complex, imaginative, vigorous, poetic, and spiced with paradoxes…Chesterton was one of the first writers of […]

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September 10

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

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“Any mystery writer who wants to learn how to plot should spend a few days reading Agatha Christie. She’ll show you everything you want to know.” DONNA LEON, author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti novels “Refreshingly original.” Times Literary Supplement (London) ABOUT THE BOOK: First published in 1922, The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie is […]

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