T he mystery and crime-writing genre set its roots in detective novels, with early hits like The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Felix in 1862 and A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in ...

Over the years, I’ve read plenty of ingenious mystery novels twice, but John Dickson Carr’s “The Three Coffins” is among the very few I’ve enjoyed three times. This fall, Penzler ...

4 best mystery books to read right now. Authors Jon Land, left, Jeff Ayers, Tori Eldridge, ... In 1968, 14-year-old Babs is stewing with the history of Little Canada, ...

As he prepares to appear at the Mesa Verde Literary Conference and Festival in Mancos, archaeologist and author Kevin T.

Don't just take my word for it: Thriller expert Stephen King called Kate Atkinson’s 2004 novel “the best mystery of the ...

Art & Exhibitions In a New Show at Gladstone, Alissa Bennett Unpacks the Mystery Novel ‘The Secret History’ The gallery director walks us through the group exhibition she organized based on ...

In the quiet Vasse district of WA, the evening of 27 August 1883 must have felt like something out of a mystery novel. Sergeant McDonald of the Vasse Police Station received a report from ...

Kirsten Menger-Anderson's time-travel mystery, 'The Expert of Subtle Revisions,' explores the way history is affected by how it is told and who does the telling.

At such a critical moment in US history, ... Butter by Japanese author Asako Yuzuki has been named the 2024 Waterstones Book Of The Year. The foodie mystery novel follows a Tokyo female journalist ...