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Margaret Mitchell

The Top Ten Favorite Books in America

By Crime HQ

May 6, 2014

According to a new Harris poll, The Bible has retained its place atop the list of America's favorite books. In fact, the second-ranked book, Gone with the Wind kept its spot for the second consecutive poll as well. The last poll was tallied in 2008.  Newcomers include: Moby Dick, Little Women, The Grapes of Wrath,…

The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming

The Resurrection Factor

By Colin Campbell

August 16, 2012

“When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar.” A simple riddle that I heard the first time I think on Doctor Who. Applying the same premise to literature we could just as well ask, “When is a James Bond novel not a James Bond novel?” The answer being ever since Ian Fleming died.…

Dorothy Parker, Literary Sleuth?

The Mystery Of The Historical Literary Sleuth

By Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

September 27, 2011

While perusing the bookshelves in the mystery section of my local Barnes and Noble, I noticed an interesting trend, that of the Literary Sleuth. Mystery novels featuring Jane Austen, Dorothy Parker, Daphne du Maurier, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte, to name just a few. Well besides being real life literary icons whose books are…

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You’re Not at All the Way I Pictured You, Devochka

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

May 29, 2011

I just finished reading The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin—not a cozy, but a historical mystery (which is just as good in my opinion) set in nineteenth-century Russia. It’s the first in a series of a dozen or so mysteries featuring the young police investigator Erast Petrovich Fandorin, five of which have been translated into…

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