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During the end of last year and the beginning of 2026, I was busy beavering away on a new book project, for the British Library, and I am very pleased to be able to share the news with you today.

I read my first Doris Miles Disney mystery back in 2017. It was Family Skeleton (1949), and it featured her series sleuth, an insurance claim investigator, Jeff DiMarco. This is a brilliant read, and one I can highly recommend. Off the back of this I bought myself a job lot of several other titles by this author. Yet to varying degrees none of these books have lived up to that o...

Today I am going to look back at June one more time and provide a quick rundown of the classic crime reprints which were published during this month. If you spot any omissions, do let me know so I can add them to the list.

Today I am reviewing Henry Slesar’s The Thing at the Door, the title my Patreon supporters voted for a couple of months ago. [I shall be setting up another poll soon, so keep your eyes peeled for that.] One of the reasons Slesar’s story was selected was due to its ambiguous and mysterious blurb: ‘If the root of all neuroses is in childhood --so is the root of Terror. When Gail ...

July has just begun so I thought I better kick off my blog housekeeping for June. If you are new to #MurderEveryMonday, it is a book cover sharing activity, which I host on Twitter a.k.a. X and Instagram and it is nice to hear that it has spread on to other social media platforms too, such as Blue Sky and there are one or two bloggers who also share via a post on their blogs. A...