By Eric Amateur sleuths are a staple of mystery fiction. From little old ladies with a talent for sleuthing, to bored aristocrats looking f...

By Mary Since we last showed up, we've managed to finally tame our front-loader washer, an advanced appliance which weighs the content...

by Mary This Golden Age of Detection novel is set during Christmas week at the Noah's Ark, a former coaching inn currently chockablock...

by Mary According to a song popular with children, Nellie the elephant packed her trunk before running off to join a circus, a very poor ...

by Eric This time of year I always think about long ago school vacations when my family moved to a cottage at the lakeside picnic grove t...

by Mary As this novel opens, Leslie Seaforth and his fiancee Joyce Hazlemere are visiting the Struan Museum. Its eccentric collection inclu...

by Eric Years ago I purchased a Dover trade paperback edition of C. Daly King's 1935 novel Obelists Fly High. Dover's catalog fe...