Mystery Archives

Nerve Damage, Peter Abrahams [1] - “Sometimes the dead live on in your dreams.” A nice start to the first suspense novel I've opened in years. I pressed on.

The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler [2] - Raymond Chandler cut his typing paper in half.

The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett [3] - Dashiell Hammett, like Raymond Chandler, is a legend among lovers of hard-boiled crime fiction.

The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson [4] - The first time I read The Killer Inside Me, I wasn’t right for days. This is not an uncommon experience.

The Moving Toyshop, Edmund Crispin [5] - Having come late to mysteries, I thought to read some classics. So I found an old Penguin edition of Edmund Crispin’s “The Moving Toyshop,

The Quiche of Death, M.C. Beaton [6] - What are the odds that I would read, much less praise, an English murder mystery starring a retired public relations executive who sells her London bu

The Silver Bear, Derek Haas [7] - There is no love in The Silver Bear. Not one little bit. The desire for love, the hunger for love? Oh, this short novel has plenty of that.

They're Watching, Gregg Hurwitz [8] - Hollywood --- I mean: the studio system --- is so over I don’t know where to begin. But old images die slowly.

Links:
[1] http://www.headbutler.com/books/mystery/nerve-damage
[2] http://www.headbutler.com/books/mystery/big-sleep
[3] http://www.headbutler.com/books/mystery/glass-key
[4] http://www.headbutler.com/books/mystery/killer-inside-me
[5] http://www.headbutler.com/books/mystery/moving-toyshop
[6] http://www.headbutler.com/books/mystery/quiche-death
[7] http://www.headbutler.com/books/mystery/silver-bear
[8] http://www.headbutler.com/books/mystery/theyre-watching