Home - Where you will find out more about mystery novels, find new authors, and learn about some really great older ones.

Mystery Author Index

Other Mystery Web Sites

• Stop, You're Killing Me - This is an incredible site for locating mystery novels by historical period, location, by job, and by many other criteria.
• Crime and Mystery Fiction - Extensive lists of authors books and links to authors web sites.
• The Cozy Mystery List - This site has lists of cozy mystery authors and their works. (If you do not know what a cozy is, take a look at this definition onWikipedia).
• Martin Edwards Web Site - This site by a writer of mysteries and and about mysteries has many interesting articles about mystery novels and their authors.
• Mystery and Detective Trivia Quizzes - So you think that you know mystery novels? Try taking these quizzes.
• Mystery Writers of America
• Sisters in Crime - National web site of the organization dedicated to promoting the work of women mystery writers.
• International Thriller Writers, Inc.
• The Crime Writers Association - of the United Kingdom.
• The Crime Writers of Canada Association - This site has a list of the winners of the Arthur Ellis Award, and also members' biographies.
• Crime Culture - The focus of this academic site is on film noir and the hard-boiled detective story. It has articles, booklists, and links to other web sites. It is well worth a visit.
• Detective Fiction on Stamps

Interesting Articles Which Do Not Seem to Fit Anywhere Else

• Why Do We Think That the Butler Did It? - Did he ever do it? This is an article from the Guardian.
• Forensic Chemistry in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction: Dorothy Sayers and the CSI Effect - an article by Lee Sullivan Berry from the Science History Institute web site.
• The Mystery Book Consumer in the Digital Age - This report gives the results of a survey conducted by Sisters in Crime in 2010. This is a pdf file.
• What Makes Great Detective Fiction According to T. S. Elliot - An article by Paul Grimstad in the New Yorker, June, 2016.
• Dilys Barbara Winn - (1939 - 2016). Dilys Winn was the ultimate mystery fan. She was a bookseller, a writer, and an editor, and had a great influence on mystery fandom.
• Collecting Crime Fiction - An article by Martin Edwards.
• Vintage Series Books for Girls and a Few for Boys - if you are a fan of Nancy Drew or of others series for young mystery fans, you will find this an interesting site.

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