The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery
Murphy is himself a bibliophile to be reckoned with, as editor of Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia and writer for Critical Inquiry and the Paris Review. What he brings to his reference work, however, is not just the requisite expertise but also a sense of his audience, an attention to prose style, and a passion for mystery as a genre. He writes in his introduction: "The crime story is about consequences.
Expert in Murder, An: A Josephine Tey Mystery
March 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her play Richard of Bordeaux, the surprise...
Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery
What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' pe...
French Pressed (Coffeehouse Mysteries, No. 6)
Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series....
Catering to Nobody (Goldy, Book 1)
MEET THE CATERER WHO WHIPPED UP THE MULTIMILLION-COPY MYSTERY SERIES-AS GOLDY SOLVES HER FIRST MURDER!...
The Lusitania Murders
On May 7, 1915, the luxury liner Lusitania was struck by a German torpedo. On board was an under-cover journalist using the pen name S.S. Van Dine. An...