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Why Write a Victorian Mystery? By Will Thomas, Author of Heart of the Nile

By Will Thomas

January 3, 2023

Whenever I’m at a book event or a writers’ convention, I get a questioning glance when I say that I write a Victorian mysteries series. “Why Victorian?” I’m often asked. The answer is simple. To me, the Victorian Era was the golden age. There is an image of men in formal suits with walking sticks…

Book Review: Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries by Martin Edwards

By Doreen Sheridan

June 8, 2022

The involvement of animals in popular mystery fiction, as Martin Edwards notes in his excellent introduction to this collection, has been a large and lively part of the genre from its very inception. From what’s commonly acknowledged as the first detective story, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders In The Rue Morgue,” to the plethora of…

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