John Dickson Carr 's "The Diamond Pentacle," published as by " Carter Dickson ," originally appeared in The Times o...

Evgen Avstine was a French editor, poet, publisher and writer born to Russian-Jewish parents who wrote everything from non-fiction, poetry, ...

Last year, I reviewed Mignon G. Eberhart ' s From This Dark Stairway (1931), fourth in the Nurse Keath and Lance O'Leary series, wh...

So, before getting to the 99th volume of Gosho Aoyama 's Case Closed , some fantastic news for those who have been reading reviews of th...

In 2021, I reviewed A Time for Murder (2002/13) by John Glasby, a prolific fictioneer of the 1950s and '60s, who produced science-ficti...

Back in July, I reviewed a long out-of-print, practically forgotten Dutch mystery novel, De dood kwam door de sneeuw ( Death Came Through t...

The simply titled story "Even" opens Motohiro Katou 's Q.E.D. iff vol. 5 and begins when Ashikaga Ren, a second-year universi...

She Woke to Darkness (1954) is the 25th novel in the Michael Shayne series by " Brett Halliday ," a pseudonym of Davis Dresser, w...

Last time, I reviewed "The Episode of the Nine Monets" (2020) by Jamie Probin, a mathematician, who has written a short series of ...

Jamie Probin is a British-born mathematician currently living in Charleston, South Carolina, where he teaches mathematics at Charleston Sout...

Last time, I reviewed the splendid novella " Death is a Trouper " (1946) by " Kelley Roos ," a shared penname of William...