Last year, I delved into the work of a long-forgotten, out-of-print Dutch mystery writer, Peter Verstegen, who wrote five classically-styled...

This year, I began exploring the work of an unjustly forgotten, long out-of-print Dutch mystery writer, Peter Verstegen, who wrote a handful...

My previous blog-posts were reviews of translations of two non-English detective novels, Mika Waltari's Kuka murhasi rouva Skrofin? ( W...

Three months ago, I reviewed Moord onder astrologen ( Murder Among Astrologists , 1963) by "Ton Vervoort," a penname of Peter Ver...

Previously, I looked at a little-known Dutch detective novel, W.H. van Eemlandt's Dood in schemer ( Death in Half-Light , 1954), which ...

" Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil&#...