Faith, Fiction, Friends

It’s the early 1930s. An English actress has become an American movie superstar. She is wowing the public with her return to England, intent...

It’s a two-fer – an English country manor weekend mystery and a locked room mystery. But it’s anything but conventional.  Alan Ravenswood, w...

Lawrence Blakely is a young attorney in Washington, D.C., partners with his best friend from school and college and fellow lawyer. He is tak...

Mervyn Hoyt is a former army officer in World War I. He’s drifting a bit, not sure what he’ll do next. The war has been over for more than t...

Reginald Templeton is known as something of a world traveler and possibly even a millionaire. He arrives at Marsh Quay, a fishing village in...

I’ve been a fan of  Margery Allingham  (1904-1966) and her fictional private detective Albert Campion since I first started reading her...

People are tempted to do a lot of things when they need money.  Mystery writer  S.S. Van Dine  needed money, and he cut a deal with...

Of the 12 Philo Vance mysteries by  S.S. Van Dine , only two weren’t made into movies. Several actors played the detective in the vario...

Almost every Philo Vance mystery by  S.S. Van Dine  includes an in-depth dive into a subject. It may be Egyptian artifacts and hierogly...