All Book Reviews

Aldana Reyes, Xavier (ed.)

The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins (2024)

Anthony, Elizabeth

Dramatic Murder (1948)

Baker-Carr, Priscilla (rev.)

The Haunted Bridge (1972, RT)

The Mystery of the Ivory Charm (1974, RT)

Brand, Christianna

London Particular (1952)

Tour de Force (1955)

Carnac, Carol

(pseudonym of Edith Caroline Rivett a.k.a. E.C.R. Lorac)

Murder as a Fine Art (1953)

Carson, Sally

(Sylvia ‘Sally’ Carson)

Crooked Cross (1934)

Carswell, Catherine

The Camomile (1922)

Clavering, Molly

(a.k.a. B. Mollett, Marion Moffatt, Emma Munro)

Yoked With a Lamb (1938)

Cooper, Lettice

Tea on Sunday (1973)

Dickson, Carter

(pseudonym of John Dickson Carr)

The Ten Teacups (1937)

Doll, Patricia (rev.)

The Bungalow Mystery (1960, RT)

The Mystery at Lilac Inn (1961, RT)

Password to Larkspur Lane (1966, RT)

The Sign of the Twisted Candles (1968, RT)

Ealer, Lynn (rev.)

The Secret of Red Gate Farm (1961, RT) Part 1 & Part 2

Edwards, Martin (ed.)

Lessons in Crime (2024)

Metropolitan Mysteries (2024)

A Surprise for Christmas (2020)

Who Killed Father Christmas? (2023)

Farjeon, Eleanor

Miss Granby’s Secret (1940)

Farrell, Kathleen

Mistletoe Malice (1951)

Faviell, Frances

(pseudonym of Olivia Faviell Lucas)

A Chelsea Concerto (1959)

Forest, Antonia

Peter’s Room (1961)

Freeman, R. Austin

Mr. Pottermack’s Oversight (1931)

Grote, Grace (rev.)

The Message in the Hollow Oak (1972, RT)

The Secret of Shadow Ranch (1965, RT)

Grote, Grace & Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (rev.)

The Clue in the Broken Locket (1965, RT)

Iles, Frances

(pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley Cox a.k.a. Anthony Berkeley)

Before the Fact (1932)

James, P.D.

(pseudonym of Phyllis Dorothy James White)

Cover Her Face (1962)

A Mind to Murder (1963)

Karig, Walter

Nancy’s Mysterious Letter (1968, RT)

Password to Larkspur Lane (1966, RT)

The Sign of the Twisted Candles (1968, RT)

Keene, Carolyn

(pseudonym of various writers of the Nancy Drew series)

The Bungalow Mystery (1960, RT)

The Clue in the Broken Locket (1965, RT)

The Clue in the Diary (1962, RT)

The Haunted Bridge (1937, OT)

The Haunted Bridge (1972, RT)

The Hidden Staircase (1959, RT) Part 1 & Part 2

The Message in the Hollow Oak (1935, OT) 

The Message in the Hollow Oak (1972, RT) 

The Mystery of the Ivory Charm (1974, RT)

The Mystery of Lilac Inn (1961, RT)

Nancy’s Mysterious Letter (1968, RT)

Password to Larkspur Lane (1966, RT)

The Secret of the Old Clock (1959, RT)

The Secret of Red Gate Farm (1961, RT) Part 1 & Part 2

Keene, Carolyn — The Secret of Shadow Ranch (1965, RT)

Keene, Carolyn — The Sign of the Twisted Candles (1968, RT)

Keene, Carolyn — The Whispering Statue (1937, OT) Part 1 & Part 2

Keene, Carolyn — The Whispering Statue (1970, RT) Part 1 & Part 2

Lofts, Norah

Lady Living Alone (1945)

Lorac, E.C.R.

(pseudonym of Edith Caroline Rivett a.k.a. Carol Carnac)

Murder in Vienna (1956)

Pascal, Francine

Winter Carnival (1986)

Scott, Eleanor

War Among Ladies (1928)

Sharp, Margery

The Foolish Gentlewoman (1948)

Four Gardens (1935)

Stratemeyer Adams, Harriet (rev)

The Clue in the Diary (1962, RT)

The Hidden Staircase (1959, RT) Part 1 & Part 2

Nancy’s Mysterious Letter (1968, RT)

The Secret in the Old Clock (1959, RT) 

The Whispering Statue (1970, RT) Part 1 & Part 2

Stratemeyer Adams, Harriet & Grace Grote (revs.)

The Clue in the Broken Locket (1965, RT)

Taggart, Caroline

The Philosophy of Christmas (2024)

Taylor, Elizabeth

A View of the Harbour (1947)

Tomlinson, David

Luckier Than Most: An Autobiography (1990)

Various

Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season (2022)

Von Arnim, Elizabeth

The Jasmine Farm (1937)

Ward, E.M.

Forest Silver (1941)

White, Ethel Lina

The Wheel Spins (1936)

Wirt Benson, Mildred A.

(a.k.a. Alice B. Emerson, Ann Wirt, Carolyn Keene, Don Palmer, Dorothy West, Frances K. Judd, Frank Bell, Helen Louise Thorndyke, Joan Clark, Julia K. Duncan, Mildred A. Wirt, Mildren Benson, some of these are her own pseudonyms and some she shared with other writers)

The Bungalow Mystery (1959, RT)

The Clue in the Broken Locket (1965, RT)

The Clue in the Diary (1962, RT)

The Haunted Bridge (1937, OT)

The Haunted Bridge (1972, RT)

The Hidden Staircase (1959, RT) Part 1 & Part 2

The Message in the Hollow Oak (1935, OT)

The Message in the Hollow Oak (1972, RT)

The Mystery of the Ivory Charm (1974, RT)

The Mystery at Lilac Inn (1961, RT)

The Secret of the Old Clock (1959, RT)

The Secret of Red Gate Farm (1961, RT) Part 1 & Part 2

The Secret of Shadow Ranch (1965, RT)

The Whispering Statue (1937, OT) Part 1 & Part 2

The Whispering Statue (1970, RT) Part 1 & Part 2

Woods, Sara

(pseudonym of Eileen Mary Lana Hutton Bowen Judd)

Bloody Instructions (1962)

Error of the Moon (1963)

Malice Domestic (1962)

The Third Encounter (1963)

Trusted Like the Fox (1964)

*I struggled in deciding how best to account for pseudonyms. I decided to just go with the author name my edition of the book was published under, with the exception of the Nancy Drew books. Those I have entered under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, as well as a separate entries for the ghostwriter, and the revisor (rev) or revisors (revs) in the case of the revised texts (RT), for those interested in searching the titles that way.

**For some of the Nancy Drew titles, the reviews are split into two parts. I have linked them as Part 1 & Part 2 after the book title.