Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators ... an Army veteran, started writing detective fiction in the mid-1970s, a time of maximum American disillusionment, and ...

A book recommendation from the author ... Christie’s top-rated books, this one published in 1936. The A.B.C. Murders is a Hercule Poirot mystery in which the Belgian detective is tasked with ...

if you’re searching for some gritty and gripping Scottish crime books that embody the moody mystery of the country, here are a few detective series to get you started. Hard-drinking philosopher ...

One way of enjoying mystery stories ... some authors will repeat any small development. For almost two pages in The Fingerprint, for instance, the murdered man's lawyer and Detective Inspector ...

Our critic on Deanna Raybourn’s “Kills Well With Others” and three more new books ... “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its repercussions ...

There are a number of established book series in which a religious figure features as part-time detective. We asked mystery author and scholar Martin Edwards to explain the character archetype and ...

The queen of crime fiction, Agatha Christie (1890-1976), wrote 66 mystery novels featuring ... is credited with laying down story rules that modern writers of detective fiction still follow ...

There’s nothing quite like a good detective story. Usually, there’s a mystery ... Books, TV, and films are filled to the brim with detectives. Who are the elite of the world of fictional ...

Ad Arnold, a senior from West Ouachita High School began writing her fictional narrative, “Detective Clover and the Mystery of ... and edited her own story. The young author says that each ...