by Eric After an evening of drinking, five young servicemen and a girl drive out of town and into the countryside. Members of the par...

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...

by Eric Shakespeare's Macbeth isn't out of place in this newsletter. While not a mystery it can certainly be classified as a crim...

by Eric So, let me talk about a new cozy mystery series. Meteor Right, Murder Wrong is the first of the Ye Olde Meteor Shoppe Mysteries...

by Eric Recently a friend emailed some jpgs of old toy advertisements he'd dug up on the Internet. I remembered seeing similar ads on...

by Eric It's mid-afternoon and the cafe in downtown Manhattan is brightly lit but the actor who goes by the name A. Mann is only a fl...

by Eric Out here in the Pennsylvania mountains winter comes down like old age. Everything creaks: the walls at night; the stairs as I car...

by Eric Dreams are funny things. Or maybe not. I never wake up laughing. Screaming is another matter. I'm not sure why I never have fu...

by Eric Last month I visited the library for the first time in a year to make copies of our tax forms. Years ago a week wouldn't have ...

by Eric The pandemic has forced kids all over the country to learn from home, something technologically impossible when I went to school....

by Eric In her latest blog, Questioning a Master? mystery author Triss Stein reminds us that Elmore Leonard famously wrote a list of writ...

There's an interview with Eric Reed , our not so secret pseudonym, at Killer Crafts and Crafty Killers.

Mary and I decided to change the title of our blog because we're retiring. We've both given up all of our freelance writing and edi...

by Eric Most readers and writers would probably agree that the history in a historical mystery should be accurate. If your mystery plot dep...

by Eric It's been a while since Murder in Megara came out so Mary and I have started plotting the next of our John the Lord Chamberlai...

by Eric At Halloween I always recall my childhood brush with the supernatural. My parents had taken my grandmother to visit relatives and s...

by Eric When Sir Eustace Pennefather arrives at the Rainbow Club he finds in his mail a parcel containing a box of chocolates. The choleri...

by Eric One of the problems in trying to review a mystery is that you can't give away the solution and whether the solution makes sens...

by Eric It is a dark and stormy night on the Cornish Coast when Reverend Dodd and Doctor Pendrill meet at the vicarage as they do each week...

by Eric My grandmother was an avid reader. She particularly liked mysteries and her favorite author was Erle Stanley Gardner (or his alter...