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 ...

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

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 ...

In his debut novel, “Point of Graves, a New England History Mystery,” J. Dennis Robinson combines the suspense of a whodunit with a plunge into the past. The result is both engaging and deeply ...

The Editors of "The Cambridge History of the American Novel" decided to consider their subject—as history is considered increasingly in universities these days—from the bottom up. In 71 ...

Jean Laws completed her novel, “The Mystery of the Mystery Writer’s Mysterious Death,” about a week before she died last December.

The Secret History fits into a long tradition of novels set on university campuses – including Petrou's latest, Stargazer, about two friends at a remote Canadian university in the 90s, which she ...