POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS

Elizabeth Zelvin In the Golden Age of detective fiction, several British mystery writers, all women, reigned more or less co-supreme: Aga...

Elizabeth Zelvin Do you believe in “happily ever after”? If you read romance novels, you insist on it. While the classic fairy tales of Ande...

Elizabeth Zelvin While many admirable mysteries are being written today—and a fair number of the people writing them are friends of mine—few...

by Sheila Connolly Poe’s Deadly Daughters are delighted to welcome Sheila Connolly as our new blog sister. Sheila is the author of the Orcha...

Elizabeth Zelvin Over on the DorothyL e-list, they’ve been discussing Sayers’s Gaudy Night , in which Lord Peter Wimsey courts Harriet Vane ...

Elizabeth Zelvin I recently heard that a gentleman with an encyclopedic knowledge of the mystery genre will soon be revealing the seven myst...

By Lonnie Cruse Every so often I read a book review about a mystery novel written many years ago. A book long out of print, available only ...

Sandra Parshall Recently I took part in a writers’ workshop where my job was to talk about creating an appealing and believable sleuth. The ...