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  • SHORT STORY REVIEW: “Who Killed Zebedee?” by Wilkie Collins

    Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) is an English novelist best known for his two novels: The Lady in White and Moonstone. Both novels are credited with establishing the ground rules of modern Detective Stories. For aficionados of Detective Fiction, like me, both are essential reading. While Lady in White and Moonstone are very long novels, “Who Killed Zebedee?”… Read more

  • SHORT STORY REVIEW: “Three is a Lucky Number” by Margery Allingham

    Margery Allingham (May 1904 – June 1966) was an English novelist and considered alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh to be one of the “Queens of Crime.” She is probably best known for a series of stories featuring Albert Campion. These include:: Over the years, I have read a number of her Campion stories… Read more

  • SHORT STORY REVIEW: “The Girl Who Loved Graveyards”by P.D. James

    P.D. James (1920-2014) had to leave school at the age of 16 to take care of younger siblings and because her father did not believe that women needed higher education. Anyone who has ever read P.D. James knows that this early departure from formal education does not appear to have hampered her ability to become… Read more

  • Golden Age Detective Fiction

    For some reason I have been reading a lot of Golden Age Detective Fiction of late. The Golden Age of Detective Fiction is generally considered to be the kind of mysteries written in the 1920s and 1930s, primarily in Britain. What that means is that I have been reading novels by and short story collections… Read more