One of the many titles listed in Robert Adey's Locked Room Murders (1991) that has always fascinated me is a short story docketed as...

Last month, I reviewed three war-themed novels by Christopher Bush, The Case of the Murdered Major (1941), The Case of the Kidnapped Col...

" But in any case, after another crime, we shall know infinitely more. Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as y...

" A player surprised is half beaten. " - Proverb. In previous postings dealing with that duet of gumshoes, the armchair ...

" I would not tell them too much, " said Holmes . " Women are never to be entirely trusted,--not the best of them ." - ...

" No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to r...

" You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish fo...

" I don't know how a brain that is never used passes the time . " - Nero Wolfe ( The Final Deduction , 1961) Maury Chaykin...