Recently Read Mysteries

"Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. The distance between bookshelves was so narrow that you could only get along with great difficulty. There were piles of books perched on every shelf or table. On a stool in a corner, hemmed in by books, was an old man in a pork-pie hat with a large flat face like a stuffed fish. He had the air of one who has given up an unequal struggle. He had attempted to master the books, but the books had obviously succeeding in mastering him. He was a kind of King Canute of the book world, retreating before the advancing book tide. If he ordered it to retreat, it would have been with the sure and hopeless certainty that it would not do so."
- "The Clocks" Agatha Christie



Classic Mysteries and Authors Modern Mysteries and Authors
Dame Agatha Christie
- Hercule Poirot -
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
Cat Among The Pigeons (1959)
The Clocks (1963)
- Miss Marple -
The Body in the Library (1942)
- Other -
And Then There Were None (1939)

Ed McBain
- 87th Precinct -
The Mugger (1956)
Ice (1983)
Lightning (1984)

Mickey Spillane
- Mike Hammer -
I, The Jury (1947)
My Gun Is Quick (1950)
The Killing Man (1989)

 Richard Barth
- Margaret Binton -
Deathics (1993)

Michael Connelly
The Overlook (audio)(2008)

Patricia Conwell
- Key Scarpetta -
Post Mortem (1990)
- Non-Fiction -
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed (2002)

Mary Daheim
A Streetcar Named Expire (1999)

Colin Dexter
- Inspector Morse -
The Daughters of Cain (1994)

Tony Dunbar
- Tubby Dubonnet -
Trick Question (1997)

G. M. Ford
- Leo Waterman -
Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca? (1995)
The Bum's Rush (1997)
Last Ditch (1999)

Sue Grafton
- Kinsey Millhone -
"A" Is for Alibi (1982)
"B" Is for Burglar (1985)
"C" Is for Corpse (1986)
"D" Is for Deadbeat (1987)
"E" Is for Evidence (1988)
"F" Is for Fugitive (1989)
"G" Is for Gumshoe (1990)

Stieg Larsson
- Millenium -
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2005)
The Girl Who Played With Fire (2006)

Elmore Leonard
The Big Bounce (1969)

Kathy Reichs
- Temperance "Tempe" Brennan -
Deja Dead (1997)

Edith Skom
- Beth Austin -
The George Eliot Murders (1996)

Stephen Jay Schwartz
- Heyden Glass -
Beat (2010)


By the time I was 12, I had read all the Hardy Boys Detective stories published up to that date (1982). I think I finally stopped after "The Mystery of Smugglers Cove" (#64).


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Last Update: 7-06-2011
Created: 11-08-2010