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The Best Mysteries of the 1940s – Part 2
Yesterday I began sharing my favourite mysteries which were originally published in the 1940s. If you missed that post, here is a link, so you can catch up on those particular titles and you can also...
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The Best Mysteries of the 1940s – Part 3
This week I have been sharing with you my top crime fiction reads which were published in the 1940s and even though I restricted myself to books which I rated 4.5/5 or higher, I still ended up with a...
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The Best Mysteries of the 1940s – Part 4
So today we come to the end of my long list of my favourite 1940s crime fiction. If you have missed them, here are the links to the other posts in this series: The Best Mysteries of the 1940s: Part 1...
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The Best Mysteries of the 1940s: My Top Ten
So, the moment has finally arrived when I share which mysteries made it into my top 10. For the past four days I have been posting my long list of 40 titles, which just missed out on being within the...
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Blackout and Other Tales of Suspense (2025) by Ethel Lina White
This collection was put together to mark 80 years since the death of Ethel Lina White, a writer whose work has given many hours of tense and suspense-filled entertainment. A while ago I ranked the...
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Murder by Jury (1932) by Ruth Burr Sanborn
There are a few vintage mystery novels which focus on a jury. The first two that sprang to mind were Verdict of Twelve (1940) by Raymond Postgate and The Jury (1932) by Gerald Bullett. Curtis Evans...
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Celebrating Women Crime Authors: Victoria Dowd’s The Smart Women Logic Puzzle
Today at the British Library an event is running called Deadly: The Festival of Women Writing Crime. The event is described as ‘a celebration of the very best in contemporary crime writing by women....
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Puzzle No.2: Hidden Words – The Ann Cleeves and Elly Griffths Edition
Today at the British Library an event is running called Deadly: The Festival of Women Writing Crime. The event is described as ‘a celebration of the very best in contemporary crime writing by women....
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Puzzle No. 3: Location, Location, Location: Female Crime Writers and their...
Today at the British Library an event is running called Deadly: The Festival of Women Writing Crime. The event is described as ‘a celebration of the very best in contemporary crime writing by women....
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Murder on the Aphrodite (1935) by Ruth Barr Sanborn
Last week I reviewed Sanborn’s first detective story, Murder by Jury (1932) and this week I am looking at another. This story takes place on Mrs Van Wycke’s yacht, which is beached on an island off...
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