The Horizontal Man

Author	Celia Fremlin
ISBN	1860492231

I read this brilliant and vintage novel in one big gulp of a sitting this afternoon - positively beautiful writing, immensely creepy yet wittily hilarious in places, Celia Fremlin gives a masterclass in the genre of Domestic Noir years before Domestic Noir was a thing.

Winner of the 1960 Edgar...

Author	Margaret Millar
ISBN	0786706678

A psychological thriller by a mistress of suspense at the top of her form and 1956 winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. What starts with a crank call from an old school chum sets the lonely, aloof, financially comfortable Miss Helen Clarvoe on a path as predictable only as madness. Lured from her rooms in...

Author	Vera Caspary
ISBN	1558615059

Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charms—not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura’s death, he becomes obsessed...

Author	Evelyn Piper
ISBN	1558614745

This latest entry in the acclaimed “Femmes Fatales: Women Writing Pulp” series builds on the spectacular 2003 launch, featured on NPR, The New York Times and more than twenty trade and consumer publications.

Blanche Lake is not like the other mothers who come to collect their children...

Author	Charlotte Armstrong
ISBN	0930330986

A longtime bachelor finally loves—only to suffer corrosive jealousy

For five decades, Kenneth Gibson lives quietly, now teaching poetry to undergrads. His life is comfortable and dull, until he meets and marries helpless Rosemary 32. Cared for, her depression fades, his wan wife gains...

Author	Michael Sims
ISBN	0143105663

Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for...

Author	Francis Iles
ISBN	0330373153

This crime classic is the basis of the Hitchcock masterpiece "Suspicion" and in this case the movie was definitely better than the book.

Lina McLaidlaw a plain spinster approaching 30 recklessly marries the charming Johnny Asygarth even though she suspects he is just marrying her for her...

Author	Fredric Brown
ISBN	1596541199

1948 Edgar Award Winner

Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy. He doesn't want to end up like his father, a linotype operator and a drunk, married to a harridan, with a harridan-in-training stepdaughter. Ed wants out, he wants to live, he wants to see the world before it's too late. Then his...

Author	Arthur B. Reeve
ISBN	1406538205

Arthur Benjamin Reeve (1880-1936), was a graduate of Princeton and attended New York Law School. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes," and for writing 18 mystery/detective novels. His works include: The Black...

Author	Jacques Futrelle
ISBN	0812970144

This irascible genius, this diminutive egghead scientist, known to the world as “The Thinking Machine,” is no less than the newly rediscovered literary link between Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe: Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who—with only the power of ratiocination—unravels...

Author	Ellery Queen
ISBN	0060974370

COUNTDOWN: - Mid-20th Century North American Crime
BOOK 119 (of 250)
HOOK=2 stars: Ellery Queen takes a writing vacation in the country: the introduction to the central plot is a while in coming. And this book runs 155, 856 words. Crime/mysteries usually fall into the 70K to 120K range, so this...

Author	Barnaby Ross
ISBN	0930330439

Truyện này phải đổi tên thành "ngài Drury Lane và tập đoàn fanboy" mới đúng. Trinh thám có đến ba người chết nhưng khi đọc lại có cảm giác thoải mái, rất dễ chịu, không biết có phải vì truyện thuộc thể loại cozy mystery không.

Ngài...

Author	Curt Colbert
ISBN	1933354801

Brand new stories by: G.M. Ford, Skye Moody, R. Barri Flowers, Thomas P. Hopp, Patricia Harrington, Bharti Kirchner, Kathleen Alcalá, Simon Wood, Brian Thornton, Lou Kemp, Curt Colbert, Robert Lopresti, Paul S. Piper, and Stephan Magcosta.
Early Seattle was a hardscrabble seaport filled...

Author	Peter Lovesey
ISBN	1569472556

The year is 1921. A passionate affair between voracious romance reader Alma Webster and her dentist, Walter Baranov, has led to his wife’s murder. The lovers take flight aboard the Mauretania and the dentist takes the name of Inspector Dew, the detective who arrested the notorious wifekiller Dr....

Author	Phoebe Atwood Taylor
ISBN	0881500461

1931, #1 Asey Mayo, with Miss Prudence Whitsby, Cape Cod
nasty author gets his head bashed in - well, he *did* seem to enjoy making enemies, so there's lots of suspects, including several of Miss Prudence's visitors - and friends; classic small-town cosy mystery, three-and-one-half stars.

When...

Author	Stuart Palmer
ISBN	1601870132

For the third graders at Jefferson School, a field trip is always a treat. But one day at the New York Aquarium, they get much more excitement than they bargained for. A pickpocket sprints past, stolen purse in hand, and is making his way to the exit when their teacher, the prim Hildegarde Withers, knocks...

Author	Paul Cain
ISBN	0887390781

First published by Doubleday in 1932 in the depth of the Great Depression, an era whose seamy side it depicts, and only recently rediscovered, 'Fast One' by Paul Cain (one of the mystery men of American literature) explodes into real life with the story of one of the toughest characters ever to emerge...

Author	Dorothy B. Hughes
ISBN	1903155584

The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Man as one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. ‘A late addition to the thirteen crime stories Dorothy B Hughes wrote with great success in one prolific spell between 1940 and 1952,’ it was, in his view, her best book. But it is far more than a crime...

Author	Sarah Stewart Taylor
ISBN	0312337426

ART HISTORY PROFESSOR SWEENEY ST. GEORGE is in the middle of putting together an exhibit on her specialty, "the art of death," for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that should be in the museum's collection seems to be missing. Searching...

Author

Frances Lockridge

First in a long and extremely popular series, the main sleuth is actually Lt. Weigand of the NYC police - this is a cosy police procedural, with some nice bits of The Norths - who find the body - even though most people only remember them. In this first novel they do only a little sleuthing, and the focus is...

Author	Sarah Weinman
ISBN	1598534300

Women writers have always had a central place in American crime writing, although one wouldn’t know it for all the attention focused on the men of the hardboiled school. This collection, the first of a two-volume omnibus, presents four classics of the 1940s overdue for fresh attention. Anticipating...

Author

Carolyn Wells

An heiress has been murdered, and only Fleming Stone can see the vital evidence

Madeleine Van Norman is the most eligible young woman in the state, a beautiful young lady who is soon to come into her fortune. From her countless suitors, she makes a peculiar choice, agreeing to marry a stuffy man...

Author	Anthony Berkeley
ISBN	0440168449

The Hook - After being quite delighted with my first Anthony Berkeley classic mystery, Trial and Error, I wondered if another would be as entertaining. Read on.

The Line - ”To make no bones about it, the Bendixes had apparently succeeded in achieving that eighth wonder of the modern world,...

Author	W.R. Burnett
ISBN	0948353538

Before reading 'Little Caesar', all I knew about this book was the movie version of it in the classic 1931 movie based on the novel:

https://youtu.be/qfcHKhp8YE4

Well, I finally got around to reading ‘Little Caesar’, W. R. Burnett’s classic 1929 novel about the character...