Reviews by Author

Anthony Abbot
About the Murder of Geraldine Foster  4 stars

Sandra Abbott

Victoria Abbott
The Christie Curse  3.5 stars

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse
Mycroft Holmes  3.5 stars

Peter Abrahams
Down the Rabbit Hole  3 stars  

Edward Acheson
Red Herring  3 stars

Courtney E. Ackerman
 
Peter Ackroyd
English Music  DNF

Charles Warren Adams
The Notting Hill Mystery  3 stars

Douglas Adams 
The HItchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  5 stars

Lydia Adamson

Jack Adrian & Robert Adey (eds)
Murder Impossible  3.5 stars

Renee Ahdieh
Flame in the Mist  3 stars

Catherine Aird
Henrietta Who?  4 stars
Past Tense   3.5 stars
The Religious Body  4 stars
The Stately Home Murder  5 stars

Rennie Airth
The Blood-Dimmed Tide  4 stars
River of Darkness  4 stars

Joan Aiken
The Silence of Herondale  3 stars

Boris Akunin
The Winter Queen  3.5 stars

Susan Wittig Albert
The Darling Dahlias & the Cucumber Tree   3 stars

Mitch Albom
for one more day  4 stars

Louisa May Alcott

David Alexander
Dead, Man, Dead  3 stars

Matthew Algeo
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure 3 stars

Dante Alighieri (trans Dorothy L Sayers)
The Divine Comedy 1: Hell   Review Part II  4 stars
The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory 3.5 stars
The Divine Comedy III: Paradise  3.75 stars

Betsy Allen (Betty Cavanna)
The Clue in Blue  3.5 stars
The Green Island Mystery  3.75 stars

Frederick Lewis Allen
Only Yesterday  4 stars

Grant Allen
An African Millionaire  2 stars

Irene Allen
Quaker Witness  2 stars

Michael Allen
Spence & the Holiday Murders  3.5 stars

Steve Allen
The Murder Game  3.5 stars

Isabel Allende

Margery Allingham
Dancers in Mourning  4 stars
The Fashion in Shrouds   3 stars
The Fear Sign (Sweet Danger; Kingdom of Death)  4 stars
Flowers for the Judge  4 stars
Pearls Before Swine  3.5 stars
Police at the Funeral  4 stars  
Take Two at Bedtime  3 stars
The White Cottage Mystery   3.5 stars

Paul Allor
Clue  3 stars

Eric Ambler
A Coffin for Dimitrios   2.5 stars 


American Heritage Editors
RFK His Life and Death  4 stars

Delano Ames
For Old Crime's Sake (aka Lucky Jane) 4 stars

Kingsley Amis
The Green Man  1 star

Cleveland Amory
The Cat Who Came for Christmas 3 stars  

Morey Amsterdam
Keep Laughing  3 stars

Hans Christian Andersen 
Andersen's Fairy Tales 
 3 stars  

J. R. L. Anderson
A Sprig of Sea Lavender 3 stars

James Anderson
The Affair of the 39 Cufflinks  3 stars

Margaret J. Anderson
In the Keep of Time  3 stars

Poul Anderson
The High Crusade  3 stars

Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings  4.5 stars

Richar J Anobile
Star Trek The Motion Picture: The Photostory  4 stars

Anonymous (trans by Herbert Mason)
Gilgamesh   4.5 stars

Michael David Anthony
The Becket Factor  3 stars

Aharon Appelfeld
Badenheim 1939  3 stars

Charlotte Armstrong
The Chocolate Cobweb  2 stars
A Dram of Poison Unrated
Lay On, Mac Duff!  3.5 stars

Margot Arnold
Exit Actors, Dying  3 stars
Lament for a Lady Laird   3 stars
The Menehune Murders  4 stars
Zadok's Treasure 4 stars


Roberth Arthur
The Three Investigators: The Mystery of the Fiery Eye  3 stars

Brenda Ashford
A Spoonful of Sugar: A Nanny's Story  4.5 stars

Mike Ashley (ed)
 
Isaac Asimov
Casebook of the Black Widowers  3 stars
Fantastic Voyage  3.5 stars
Foundation  3 stars 
In Memory Yet Green  5 stars 
The Last Question  5 stars 
Murder at the ABA  2 stars

The Stars, Like Dust  2.5 stars 

Kathryn J. Atwood

Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace  4 stars
The Handmaid's Tale 5 stars

Pierre Audemars
The Bitter Path of Death  3 stars

John August [Bernard de Voto]
 
Jane Austen
Emma  2 stars
Northanger Abbey  4 stars
Pride & Prejudice  4 stars
Sense & Sensibility 3 stars

Paul Auster
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story  4 stars


Anne Austin
The Avenging Parrot  4 stars 

Jonathan Auxier
 
Esther Averill
The Hotel Cat 4 stars

Yukito Ayatsuji
The Decagon House Murders  4 stars
DeKok & Variations on Murder 4 stars
Murder in Amsterdam by 3.5 stars


Marion Babson
Line Up for Murder  4 stars

George Bagby
The Body in the Basket  4 stars
Give the Little Corpse a Great Big Hand  3.5 stars

Desmond Bagley
Running Blind  3.5 stars

Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Brownie Beaver  3 stories

H. C. Bailey
Shadow on the Wall  3 stars

Temple Bailey
The Pink Camellia  3 stars 

David Bainbridge

Josephine Baker (intro by)
Classical Women Poets  3.5 stars

Samm Sinclair Baker
One Touch of Blood  3.25 stars

Tracey Baptiste
 
Willetta Ann Barber & R. F. Schabelitz

Muriel Barbery

Robert Barnard
Death and the Princess   3.5 stars 

Jonathan Barnes
The Somnambulist 3 stars 

Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot  3 stars
The Porcupine  3.5 stars

Robert Barr

Lorna Barrett
Book Clubbed  2 stars

Stephanie Barron

Allison Hoover Bartlett

Bernard Bastable (Robert Barnard)
Dead, Mr. Mozart  1 stars
 
M. C. Beaton
Death of a Charming Man  3 stars
Death of a Chimney Sweep  3 stars

Sally Beauman
Rebecca's Tale  3 stars

K. K. Beck
Electric City  3 stars
Young Mrs. Cavendish & the Kaiser's Men  2.5 stars

Alan Beechey
This Private Plot  3 stars

Francis Beeding
Murdered One by One  3.75 stars  Dual-Post with Brad Friedman

Josephine Bell
Bones in the Barrow  4 stars
Death at the Medical Board  3.5 stars
Death in Clairvoyance  3 stars
The Fennister Affair 3 stars
Stroke of Death 2 stars
The Summer School Mystery   3 stars
The Trouble in Hunter Ward  2.75 stars
The Wilberforce Legacy  3 stars

Samantha S. Bell
 
George Bellairs

John Bellairs
The Trolley to Yesterday  3.5 stars

Ludwig Bemelmans
 
Marie Benedict
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie  3.5 stars

Marlowe Benn
Relative Fortunes  2.5 stars

John McGrew Bennet

Harry Benson
R.F.K.: A Photographer's Journal  5 stars

Therese Benson
Death Wears a Mask  3 stars

Evelyn Berckman
Journey's End  DNF

Anthony Berkeley
The Silk Stocking Murders  3.5 stars

Robert Bernard
Death Takes a Sabbatical  3 stars

William Bernhardt et al
Natural Suspect  1 star

Jeanne F. Bernkopf (ed)
The Cream of Crime: More Tales from Boucher's Choicest  3 stars

Frank Berrios
I Am Captain Kirk  4.5 stars

Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Book Scavenger  4 stars

Maryka Biaggio
Parlor Games 3 stars

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary  3 stars

Earl Derr Biggers
The Chinese Parrot  3.5 stars 
Earl Derr Biggers Tells Ten Stories  3 stars

Dolan Birkley (Dolores Hitchens)
The Blue Geranium  3.5 stars

Claudia Bishop
The Case of the Ill-Gotten Goat  3 stars

Camilla R. Bittle
The Boy in the Pool  4 stars

Jerome Bixby
The Day of the Dove  4 stars

"Inspector Henry Black"
Scotland Yard Photo Crimes  3 stars

Lionel Black
Death by Hoax  3 stars

Death Has Green Fingers  3.5 stars
The Penny Murders  3 stars

Veronica Black
A Vow of Penance  3 stars

John Blackburn
Blue Octavo  3.5 stars

(Charity) Lee Blackstock
The Woman in the Woods  3 stars

Marcia Blair (Marc Baker)
 
Davina Blake
Past Encounters  4 stars

Nicholas Blake
The Corpse in the Snowman  4 stars
The Widow's Cruise  3.5 stars
The Worm of Death  2.75 stars

Nero Blanc
A Crossworder's Holiday  3 stars 
Wrapped Up in Crosswords  2.5 stars

Clair Blank
John Smith Hears Death Walking  2.5 stars

Jerry Bledsoe
The Angel Doll  4 stars

Everett F. Bleiler (ed)
Three Victorian Novels  3.5 stars

Bleiler & T. E. Dikty (eds)
Imagination Unlimited  3 stars

James Blish
Star Trek 8  3 stars

Robert Bloch
Psycho  4 stars
 
Lawrence G. Blochman
Midnight Sailing  3 stars

Lawrence Block
Random Walk  3.75 stars

Bernice Bloom
Mysterious Invitation  3 stars

Deborah Blum
The Poisoner's Handbook  3.5 stars

Jenna Blum
I'd Rather Be Reading  4 stars

Chris Bohjalian
The Lioness  5 stars
 
John & Emery Bonett
Dead Lion  3.5 stars
The Sound of Murder  4 stars

Albert Borowitz

Kelly Bowen
Duke of My Heart  3 stars

Rhys Bowen
Evan's Gate  3 stars

Dorothy Bowers
The Bells of Old Bailey   3.75 stars
Deed Without a Name 3 stars

W. E. Bowman
The Ascent of Rum Doodle  3 stars

Edgar Box (Gore Vidal)
Death Before Bedtime 3 stars

Eunice Mays Boyd
Murder Breaks Trail   3.5 stars
Slay Bells  3.5 stars

Richard L. Boyer
The Giant Rat of Sumatra  3 stars

Kay Boyle
Avalanche  2.5 stars

Ray Bradbury
Ahmed & the Oblivion Machines 3 stars 
A Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis, and Ministers  3 stars 
Death Is a Lonely Business  4 stars
Fahrenheit 451  5 stars
I Sing the Body Electric  4.5 stars
Let's All Kill Constance  2 stars (sortof) 
Something Wicked This Way Comes  4 stars  Review II  4 stars
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit  3.5 stars

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lady Audley's Secret  4 stars

Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon
A Bullet in the Ballet  2.5 stars

Dennis Bradford
A Dark Time 2.75 stars

Ernest Bramah
Best Max Carrados Detective Stories 3 stars

Marion Bramhall
Button, Button  3 stars

Pamela Branch
Murder Every Monday  1.5 stars


Christianna Brand 
Death in High Heels  2.75 stars
London Particular (aka Fog of Doubt) 4 stars  

Marc Brandel
Maniac Rendezvous  1 star

John G. Brandon
A Scream in Soho  4 stars

Gyles Brandreth
Oscar Wilde & the Vampire Murders  4 stars

Lillian Jackson Braun
The Cat Who Saw Red 3 stars

David Brawn (ed)
Little Grey Cells: The Quotable Hercule Poirot  4 stars

Herbert Brean
The Darker the Night  3.5 stars
Hardly a Man Is Now Alive  3 stars
Wilders Walk Away  4 stars

Berkeley Breathed

Simon Brett 
Blotto, Twinks, & the Ex-King's Daughter  2 stars

Emily Brightwell
Mrs. Jeffries on the Ball  3 stars
Mrs. Jeffries Stands Corrected  3 stars 

Gwen Bristow & Bruce Manning
Two & Two Make Twenty-Two  4 stars

Stuart Brock
Just Around the Coroner  2 stars

Tom Brokaw
The Greatest Generation  4 stars

Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre   4 stars

Carl Brookins
The Case of the Deceiving Don  4 stars

Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book  4 stars

Benedict Brown
Murder at the Spring Ball   3. 5 stars

Carter Brown
A Corpse for Christmas  3 stars

David Alan Brown
The Secret of the Gondola  2 stars

Fredric Brown
Angels & Spaceships  4 stars
Night of the Jabberwock  4 stars

Douglas G. Browne
What Beckoning Ghost  4 stars

Marie-Therese Browne
Olga: A Daughter's Tale  4 stars

Leo Bruce
Case for Three Detectives  4 stars
Case With No Conclusion  2.75 stars
Death on Allhallowe'en  3.5 stars
Death with Blue Ribbon 2.75 stars 
Jack on the Gallows Tree 3.5 stars 
Our Jubilee Is Death  3.25 stars


Leigh Bryson
The Gloved Hand  3.5 stars

John Buchan
The 39 Steps 3.5 stars  

Raymond Buckland
Cursed in the Act  3 stars

Mikhail Bulgakov 
Heart of a Dog unrated  


Gelett Burgess
The Master of Mysteries  3.5 stars 

Thornton W Burgess
The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver  4 stars 

Richard Burke
 
W. J. Burley 
The House of Care  3 stars
Wycliffe & the Guilt Edged Alibi  3 stars 
 

Graeme Macrae Burnet
His Bloody Project  4 stars

Stephen Burt & David Mikics
The Art of the Sonnet  3.5 stars

Miles Burton
Death in the Tunnel  3.5 stars

Christopher Bush
A Nameless Coffin  2.5 stars

Octavia Butler
Wild Seed  5 stars
Xenogenesis Book 1: Dawn  5 stars

Lewis Buzbee

Olivia deBelle Byrd
Miss Hildreth Wore Brown: Anecdotes of a Southern Belle  4.5 stars

James M. Cain
The Postman Always Rings Twice  3 stars
 
Patti Callahan

Kenneth Cameron
The Bohemian Girl  4 stars

Alice Campbell 
Juggernaut  2.5 stars
Veiled Murder 1.5 stars

Julie Campbell
Trixie Belden & the Gatehouse Mystery 4 stars
Swing Low, Swing Death  2.5 stars
Unholy Dying  4.5 stars

Edward Candy
Which Doctor  3.75 stars

Words for Murder Perhaps Perhaps  3 stars

Joanna Cannan
Death at the Dog  4 stars

Bernard Capes
The Mystery of the Skeleton Key  3 stars

Orson Scott Card
Dragons of Light  3.5 stars (editor)
Future on Ice 3.5 stars (editor
Seventh Son  3.5 stars

Barbee Oliver Carleton 
 
Ruth Christoffer Carlsen & G. Robert Carlsen
52 Miles to Terror  2.5 stars

P. M. Carlson
The Youth Hostel Murders  3.5 stars

John Dickson Carr
Below Suspicion  4 stars

Jean-Claude Carriere & Peter Brook
(bassed on the poem by Farid Uddi Attar)
The Conference of the Birds  1 star

Gail Carriger 
Soulless   3 stars  
Changeless  3.5 stars  
Blameless  4 stars 
Heartless  3 stars 
Timeless 3 stars

Jimmy Carter
An Hour Before Daylight  4 stars

Maureen Carter
Dead Old 2 stars 


Barbara Cartland
Hiding  1 star

Adolpho Bioy Casares & Silvina Ocamp
Where There's Love, There's Hate  4 stars

Vera Caspary
Evvie  4 stars
The Murder in the Stork Club 4 stars

Willa Cather
My Antonia  3 stars
The Professor's House  3 stars

Sarah Caudwell
The Shortest Way to Hades  4 stars
The Sirens Sang of Murder  4 stars
Thus Was Adonis Murdered  4 stars

Betty Cavanna
Mystery of the Emerald Buddha  3 stars
Spice Island Mystery  3 stars

Richard Cecil 
Twenty First Century Blues 4 stars 

Bennett Cerf (ed)
Famous Ghost Stories  4 stars 


Michael Chabon
The Final Solution  3 stars

C. S. Challinor
Murder at Midnight  3 stars
Phi Beta Murder  3 stars

Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep  4 stars
 
Helen Chappelle

Ian Charnock

Leslie Charteris

Erika Chase
Read & Buried  2 stars

Marion Chesney
Lady Fortescue Steps Out  3.5 stars
Miss Tonks Turns to Crime    2 stars

G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown 3 stars 
The Man Who Was Thursday  3 stars

Peter Cheyney
Cocktails & the Killer  2 stars

Erskine Childers
The Riddle of the Sands  2.5 stars

Ariane Chottin
Beaver Gets Lost  4 stars

Don R. Christensen
Goofy in Giant Trouble  3 stars

James L. Christian, ed
 
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence: The First Encounter  2.5 stars   

Agatha Christie
13 at Dinner  (aka Lord Edgware Dies)  4 stars
4:50 from Paddington (aka What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!--see below) audio version featuring June Whitfield as Miss Marple  4 stars
The A.B.C. Murders   4 stars (audio) Hard Copy Review 4 stars
The Boomerang Clue (aka Why Didn't They Ask Evans?)  3 stars
The Clocks  3.5 stars (average story and audio version) Audio version (listened w/Kyle)
Dead Man's Folly  4 stars
Dumb Witness (Poirot Loses a Client)  4 stars
Easy to Kill (Murder Is Easy)  4 stars 
Elephants Can Remember  2 stars  
Endless Night  2 stars
Five Little Pigs (Murder in Retrospect)  4.5 stars
Funerals Are Fatal (After the Funeral)  4 stars
The Hollow (Murder After Hours)  4 stars
The Listerdale Mystery  3 stars
The Man in the Brown Suit  3.5 stars  Review II  4 stars
The Mirror Crack'd 4 stars
Murder in 3 Acts  3.5 stars
Nemesis  4 stars
The Patriotic Murders (One, Two, Buckle My Shoe)  3 stars
Sad Cypress  3.5 stars
The Secret Adversary  4 stars
The Secret of Chimneys  3.5 stars 
The Seven Dials Mystery  3 stars 
The Sittaford Mystery  3 stars  Review II 3.5 stars
Sparkling Cyanide (Remembered Death)  4 stars
Star Over Bethlehem   3 stars
Ten Little Indians (aka And Then There Were None--see above) 5 star
There Is a Tide (Taken at the Flood)  4 stars
Third Girl  3 stars
Witness for the Prosecution & Other Stories  4 stars

Agatha Christie/Charles Osborne
The Unexpected Guest 3.5 

Agatha Christie/Tony Medawar (ed)
Murder She Said: The Quotable Miss Marple  4 stars  

Richard Cibrano
Unthinkable  2.75 stars

Douglas Clark
The Big Grouse 2.75 stars 
Deadly Pattern  3.5 stars
The Gimmel Flask  4.5 stars 
Golden Rain  4 stars 
Jewelled Eye  3 stars
Nobody's Perfect  3 stars
Plain Sailing  3.75 stars
Poacher's Bag  4 stars

Roast Eggs  3.75 stars
Shelf Life  3.5 stars
Sick to Death  3.5 stars
Storm Center 3 stars 
Sweet Poison  3.5 stars
Table D'Hote  4 stars
Vicious Circle  3.75 stars

Anna Clarke
The Lady in Black  4 stars

Arthur C. Clarke  
The Nine Billion Names of God  5 stars

Susanna Clarke
Piranesi   4 stars
 
Clyde Clason
Dragon's Cave  3 stars
Murder Gone Minoan  4 stars
Poison Jasmine  3.5 stars
The Purple Parrot  3.75 stars

Ernest Cline
Ready Player One 4 stars


V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
No Case for the Police  3.5 stars
Only a Matter of Time  2.5 stars

Cedric E. Clute, Jr. & Nicholas Lewin (eds)
The Mystery at Orchard House  3 stars
Penelope Passes or Why Did She Die?  3.5 stars 

Theodore R. Cogswell & Charles A. Spano, Jr.
Spock, Messiah!  0 stars--none

Octavus Roy Cohen

G.D.H. & Margaret Cole
Death of a Millionaire  3 stars

Manning Coles
The Basle Express  3.5 stars
The Far Traveller  4 stars
The Fifth Man 4 stars   
Night Train to Paris  4 stars 
The Tell No Tales 4 stars

Mary Collins
Dead Center  2 stars
Only the Good  3 stars

Max Allan Collins
The War of the Worlds Murder 3 stars   Second Review

Wilkie Collins
Hide & Seek  3 stars
The Woman in White  2.5 stars

B. (Barbara) Comfort
The Cashmere Kid  2 stars 

Susan Conant
The Barker Street Regulars 3 stars

J. J. Connington (Alfred Walter Stewart)
Death at Swaythling Court  4 stars
The Eye in the Museum   3.5 stars
Murder in the Maze  4 stars
The Two Tickets Puzzle  3.5 stars

John Connolly & Declan Burke (eds)
Books to Die For  2 stars

Gene L. Coon
Devil in the Dark  4 stars
Metamorphosis  4 stars

Susan Cooper
Over Sea, Under Stone  4 stars

Basil Copper
The Curse of the Fleers  4 stars

Lucy Cores
Let's Kill George 2.75

Arthur Byron Cover

The Platypus of Doom & Other Nihilists  4 stars

Michael Cox (ed)

George Harmon Coxe
The Camera Clue  4 stars
The Crimson Clue  3.25 stars
Inland Passage  3 stars 
The Jade Venus  3.5 stars
Murder for Two  4 stars
Murdock's Acid Test  3.5 stars

Alisa Craig
The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke  3 stars

Frances Crane 
The Cinnamon Murders  3 stars 

The Coral Princess Murders  3 stars
Death-Wish Green  3 stars 
The Ultraviolet Widow  3.5 stars
The Yellow Violet  3.75 stars  


John Creasey
The Blind Spot  3 stars
The Beauty Queen Killer (A Beauty for Inspector West; also So Young, So Cold, So Fair)  2 stars
The Case Against Paul Raeburn (Triumph for Inspector West)  4 stars
Death of a Racehorse  4 stars 
The Figure in the Dusk (A Case for Inspector West)  4 stars
Inspector West Kicks Off (Sport for Inspector West)  4 stars
The Killing Strike  4 stars
The Toff & the Runaway Bride  3 stars

Michael Crichton
The Andromeda Strain  4 stars
The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead)   4 stars

Bill Crider
A Knife in the Back  3 stars

Edmund Crispin
Beware of Trains  4 stars
Swan Song 4 stars  

Freeman Wills Crofts
A Losing Game 3.5 stars

Deborah Crombie
Dreaming of the Bones   3.5 stars
A Finer End by Deborah Crombie  3.5 stars

A. B. Cunningham

John Curran
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks  unrated

Terrie Curran
All Booked Up  3 stars

Judith Cutler
Dying Fall  3 stars

Michael Dahl
The Ruby Raven  3.5 stars

Roald Dahl
The Magic Finger   unrated

Richard Dalby (ed)
Crime for Christmas  3 stars
Mistletoe & Mayhem  3.75 stars

Gina Dalfonzo
One by One They Disappeared  3.5 stars

Elizabeth Daly
Book of the Dead  3 stars 
Deadly Nightshade 3 stars
Evidence of Things Seen  3.5 stars  
Night Walk  3.75 stars 
Nothing Can Rescue Me  3.5 stars
Unexpected Night   4 stars

Jeanne M. Dams
The Corpse at St. James's 3 stars
A Dark & Stormy Night 3 stars
The Evil That Men Do  2.5 stars

Glyn Daniel
Welcome Death  3.25 stars

John M. Daniel
The Poet's Funeral  2 stars


Kyle Dargan   
The Listening 4 stars


Mike Dash
Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century 3 stars 

Evelyn David 
Murder Off the Books  2.5 stars

MaryJanice Davidson
Undead & Unpopular  1- star  

George E. Davie


Martin Davies
Mrs. Hudson & the Malabar Rose  3 stars

Frederick C. Davis
Lydia Davis
Break It Down    DNF

Mildred Davis
The Sound of Insects

Norbert Davis
Dead Little Rich Girl  4 stars
Sally's in the Alley  4 stars

Sammy Davis, Jr. [text by Burt Boyar]
Photo 5 stars  

Marlis Day
The Curriculum Murders  2 stars
Death of a Hoosier Schoolmaster  3 stars

Lillian de la Torre
The Detections of Dr. Sam: Johnson  3.5 stars

Elizabeth Dean

S. F. X. Dean
Nantucket Soap Opera Unrated

Julianna Deering
Death by the Book  3.5 stars
Rules for Murder  4 stars 


A. B. (Agnes) De Mille
Three English Comedies  3.5 stars  


Jane Dentinger 
Murder on Cue  3 stars

Philip DePoy
The Witch's Grave  1 star

Jo Dereske
Final Notice  3 stars

The Detection Club
The Floating Admiral  4 stars

Kathie Deviney
Death in the Memorial Garden 3.5 stars

Thomas B. Dewey

Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (performed by Patrick Stewart)  5 stars
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings  4 stars
The Haunted Man & The Haunted House  3 stars
A Tale of Two Cities 4 stars 

Peter Dickinson
The Old English Peep Show (A Pride of Heroes)  1 star
One Foot in the Grave  3.5 stars
A Summer in the Twenties  3 stars
The Yellow Room Conspiracy  3.5 stars

Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr)
And So to Murder  4 stars

Eilis Dillon
Death at Crane's Court  4 stars

Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Seven Gothic Tales  3 stars

Doris Miles Disney
Dark Lady  3 stars
Death for My Beloved  Unrated
Room for Murder 4 stars

Walt Disney Co.
Mickey Mouse Mystery at Disneyland  3 stars

Franklin W. Dixon
The Arctic Patrol Mystery 4 stars
While the Clock Ticked  4 stars

Ruth Dixon
Bartholomew the Beaver  3 stars

E. L. Doctorow
Ragtime  2.5 stars

Mary Mapes Dodge

Michael Dodge

Anthony Doerr
 
Hildegarde Dolson
To Spite Her Face  3.5 stars

Carlos María Domínguez
The House of Paper  3 stars

D. J. Donaldson
New Orleans Requiem  4 stars

Alexander Doty & Patricia C. Ingham
The Witch & the Hysteric: the Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan  3.5 stars

General Abner Doubleday
Chancellorsville & Gettysburg 2 stars  

Todd Downing

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Three Students [adapted by Vince Goodwin]  3 stars
His Last Bow 4 stars
The Hound of the Baskervilles 5 stars
  Illustrated Classics Version  5 stars
  Audio Version read by Simon Prebble  4 stars 
The Lost World  4 stars
The Poison Belt  3 stars
Sir Nigel   4 stars
A Study in Scarlet 5 stars
Tales of Terror & Mystery  3 stars
The Valley of Fear by Doyle graphic novel reworked by Ian Edginton & I. N. J. Culbard  4 stars
 
The White Company  3 stars

Gardner Dozois (ed)
The Year's Best Science Fiction 17th Annual Collection  4 stars

Doug Drexler & Margaret Clark (eds)
Ship of the Line  4 stars

Theodora Du Bois
Death Dines Out  3.5 stars

Ann Dukthas
The Prince Lost to Time  3 stars

Daphne du Maurier
Castle Dor (w/Arthur Quiller-Couch)  3.5 stars
The House on the Strand  3.5 stars 
Rebecca   Take Two  4 stars Rebecca movie

Evvie Dunmore
A Rogue of One's Own  3 stars

Carola Dunn
Gone West  3 stars
 
John Dunning
The Sign of the Book  3.5 stars

Charles J. Dutton
Streaked with Crimson  3 stars

Mignon G. Eberhart
Another Woman's House   2.5 stars
The Cases of Susan Dare  3 stars
Five Passengers from Lisbon 3 stars
Hunt with the Hounds  2 stars
The Mystery of Hunting's End  4.5 stars
The Patient in Room 18  3.5 stars
The White Dress  3 stars

Jason T Eberl & Kevin S Decker, eds
Star Trek & Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant 4 stars

Leslie Edgley
The Angry Heart  4 stars

Leo Edwards
Jerry Todd & the Rose-Colored Cat  3 stars

Martin Edwards
Blackstone Fell  4.5 stars 
Blood on the Tracks (ed)  3.5 stars
Crimson Snow (ed)  4 stars
The Christmas Card Crime (ed)  4 stars
The Frozen Shroud  4 stars
Gallows Court  5 stars
The Golden Age of Murder  4.5 stars 
Miraculous Mysteries (ed)  4 stars
Mortmain Hall  5 stars
Murder at the Manor (ed)  4 stars
Murder by the Book (ed)  4 stars
Murder on the Waves (ed)  4 stars 
Resorting to Murder (ed)  4 stars 
Serpents in Eden (ed)  4 stars
A Surprise for Christmas (ed)  3.75 stars

Ruth Dudley Edwards

Max Ehrlich 
The Big Eye  3.5 stars 

Horace J. Elias
Huckleberry Hound Newspaper Reporter  3 stars

George Eliot
Middlemarch  4 stars

Aaron Elkins
Good Blood  4 stars

Harlan Ellison
Alone Against Tomorrow  3 stars
Dangerous Visions #3  3 stars (edited by Ellison)
Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos  3 stars
Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever [adapted by Scott & David Tipton]  5 stars 
Have No Mouth & I Must Scream  4 stars
Partners in Wonder  3.75 stars 
Shatterday  5 stars
Slippage 4.5 stars 
Strange Wine  5 stars 
 
Harlan Ellison & Isaac Asimov
 
James Ellroy
The Black Dahlia 3 stars

George S. Elrick
The Calcutta Affair  3 stars


Sven Elvestad
The Final Days of Abbot Montrose  4 stars

Roger Elwood (ed) 
The Other Side of Tomorrow 3 stars


Margaret Erskine
Case With Three Husbands  3.5 stars
No. 9 Belmont Square  3.5 stars 
Sleep No More  3 stars  
 


Kathleen Ernst
Midnight in Lonesome Hollow  3 stars

Loren D. Estleman
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Holmes  3.5 stars

Janet Evanovich
One for the Money  DNF

Geraldine Evans
Deadly Reunion   1.5 stars

Anne G. Faigen
Frame Work 3.25 stars

A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner)
The Bigger They Come  2.5 stars
Top of the Heap  3 stars
You Can Die Laughing   3 stars

John Fardell
The 7 Professors of the Far North  3 stars

J. Jefferson Farjeon
Mystery in White 4 stars
Seven Dead  4 stars
Thirteen Guests  3.5 stars
The Z Murders  3 stars

Philip José Farmer
The Adventure of the Peerless Peer  1 star

Stewart Farrar
The Snake on 99  4 stars

Katharine Farrer

Gownsman's Gallows  3 stars

William Faulkner
Go Down, Moses  2.5 stars
Intruder in the Dust  4 stars

Noah Feldman
Scorpions: The Battles & Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices  3.5 stars

Arthur Marshall Fell
Tzimmes  4 stars

E. X./Elizabeth Ferrars
Choice of Evils  3 stars 
The Crime & the Crystal  3 stars 
Depart This Life  2.25 stars
Hunt the Tortoise  4 stars
The March Hare Murders  2.5 stars
The Small World of Murder  1 star

Sean Ferrell
Man in the Empty Suit 3.75 stars 


Jennie Fields  
Age of Desire  3 stars

Charles Finch
A Burial at Sea  4 stars
The Inheritance  3.5 stars
An Old Betrayal  3 stars

Rudolph Fisher

Dorsey Fiske
Bound to Murder  3 stars

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby 3 stars

Owen Fitzstephen
Hammett Unwritten  4 stars 

A. S. ISid) Fleischman
The Venetian Blonde  2.5 stars

H. K. Fleming
The Day They Kidnapped Queen Victoria  2.5 stars

Ian Fleming
Casino Royale 3.5 stars  

H. L. V. Fletcher
Miss Agatha Doubles for Death  4 stars

J. S. Fletcher
The Middle Temple Murder  4 stars

Joanna Fluke
Plum Pudding Murder 2 stars 

Luc Foley
The Guest List  4 stars

Hulbert Footner
The Town Cried Murder  2.5 stars

Peter Ford
Glenn Ford: A Life   4 stars

C. S. Forester
The African Queen  4 stars


David Forrest
The Great Dinosaur Robbery  3 stars

Richard Forrest
The Death at Yew Corner  2.75 stars

Andrew Forrester
The Female Detective 3 stars   

William R. Forstchen
The Forgotten War  3 stars

E. M. Forster
Howard's End  3 stars
A Passage to India  3.5 stars

Christopher Fowler 
The Water Room  1 star  

John Fowles
The French Lieutenant's Woman  2 stars

James M. Fox (Johannes Knipscheer)
 
Dick Francis
Flying Finish  3 stars 

Antonia Fraser
Mary Queen of Scots  DNF

Guy Fraser-Sampson
Death in Profile  4 stars
A Death in the Night  4.5 stars 
The House on Downshire Hill  4 stars
Miss Christie Regrets 4.5 stars 
A Whiff of Cyanide  4.5 stars

Arnold Fredericks (Frederic Arnold Kummer)
The Ivory Snuff Box  3 stars

Don Freeman
Corduroy Lost & Found

R. Austin Freeman
The Eye of Osiris  4 stars
The Silent Witness  4 stars
The Unconscious Witness  2.5 stars

Newton Frohlich
The Shakespeare Mask  4 stars

David Frome
The Eel Pie Murders   3 stars

Sarah Hoskinson Frommer
Murder in C Major  4 stars
The Vanishing Violinist 3 stars

Stephen Fry
Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined  3.5 stars

John Fuller
Flying to Nowhere  1 star (maybe) 

Timothy Fuller
Keep Cool, Mr. Jones  3.5 stars
Three Thirds of a Ghost  3 stars

Jacques Futrelle
Best "Thinking Machine" Detective Stories  3 stars

Emile Gaboriau
File No. 113  3.75 stars  
Monsieur Lecoq  3 stars

Audrey Gaines
While the Wind Howled  3 stars

Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling)
The Cuckoo's Calling  3 stars   

John Gale
Spare Time for Murder  3.5 stars

Dorothy Gardiner
The 7th Mourner  3.5 stars

Ashley Gardner (Jennifer Ashley)
The Clue of the Runaway Blonde (4 stars) /The Clue of the Hungry Horse (3 stars) 
The D. A. Breaks a Seal  3 stars

John Gardner

Grendel  2 stars 
 
Bonnie Garmus
Lessons in Chemistry  4 stars

Randall Garrett
Murder & Magic 3.5 stars 

David Garth
Challenge for Three  3.75 stars

Andrew Garve
Home to Roost  3 stars

Elizabeth Gaskell 
North & South 3 stars

Ross Gay
Phyllis Gegan

David Gerrold

Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm 4 stars  

Walter B. Gibson (adapted by)
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Revisited  2.25 stars

William Gibson 
Neuromancer  2 stars

J. U. Giesy & Junius B. Smith
The Mystery Woman  3 stars


Anthony Gilbert
The Innocent Bottle  2.5 stars
Tenant for the Tomb  4 stars

Michael Gilbert
Death & Mr. Prettyman  3 stars
Death Cracks a Bottle 3 stars
Some Beasts No More  2 stars

Bartholomew Gill

Rufus Gillmore
The Ebony Bed Murder  3 stars

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
My Own Words  4 stars

Pascal Girard
Petty Theft 2 stars

E. X. Giroux
A Death for a Dancer  3 stars
Death for a Darling  3 stars


Soldiers Don't go Mad by Charles Glass  4 stars
 
Don Glut
The Pink Panther at Castle Kreep  3 stars

Sally Goldenbaum
A Holiday Yarn  3 stars

Oliver Goldsmith
The Vicar of Wakefield  2 stars

James Gollin
The Philomel Foundation  3 stars
Carol Goodman
The Sonnet Lover    2 stars

Charles Goodrum
The Best Cellar  3 stars
A Slip of the Tong 2 stars 

Robert Goolrick
A Reliable Wife    3 stars

Edward Gorey
The Haunted Tea Cosy  4.5 stars

Jaimy Gordon
Lord of Misrule  3.75 stars

Dolores Gordon-Smith
Mad About the Boy?  3.5 stars

Paula Gosling
Monkey Puzzle  4.5 stars
The Zero Trap  4 stars

Barry Grant
The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes  2 stars

Robert Graves
Good-Bye to All That  3 stars 


Alex Grecian 
The Yard  3 stars   


Martin H Greenberg & Edward D Hoch (eds)
Great British Detectives  3.5 stars

Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg, & Carol-Lynn Waugh (eds)

Martin H. Greenburg & Francis M. Nevins, Jr. (eds)
Mr. President, Private Eye  2.5 stars

Martin H. Greenberg & Bill Pronzini (eds)
Police Procedurals  3 stars
Women Sleuths  3 stars

Douglas G. Greene

Amy Butler Greenfield
A Perfect Red  2 stars 

John Greenwood (John Buxton Hilton)
What, Me, Mr. Mosley?  1 star

Kerry Greenwood
Cocaine Blues  3.5 stars 
Dead Man's Chest  4 stars
Death by Water  4 stars
Flying Too High  4 stars
Murder & Mendelssohn  4.5 stars
Queen of the Flowers  4 stars
Unnatural Habits 4 stars

Leonard Gribble
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery  4 stars

Martha Grimes
Fadeaway Girl  1 star
Foul Matter  Review Part II    3 stars
Jerusalem Inn  3.5 stars
Vertigo 42  4 stars

The Brothers Grimm
Grimms' Fairy Tales  3 stars 

Ken Grimwood
Replay  3 stars

Elissa D.Grodin
Death by Hitchcock  2.5 stars

Batya Gur
Murder Duet    DNF

Edward O. Guthman & Jeffrey Shulman (eds)
Robert F. Kennedy: In His Own Words  3 stars

Jean Hager
The Last Noel  3.5 stars

H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines 3.5 stars
She  3 stars

Kathryn Miller Haines
Winter in June  2 stars

Peter Haining (ed)
The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 3 stars
London After Midnight   3 stars

Michéle Halberstadt
The Pianist in the Dark  3.5 stars

Christopher Hale (Frances Moyer Ross Stevens)
Midsummer Nightmare  4 stars

T. J. Hale (ed)
Great French Detective Stories  3 stars

Parnell Hall
Safari  2 stars

Tarquin Hall
The Case of the Missing Servant 4 stars

Janice Hallett
The Appeal  4.5 stars
The Twyford Code  2.5 stars

Brett Halliday
Blood on the Stars  3.5 stars
Call for Michael Shayne   3 stars
Dividend on Death  3.75 stars
Dolls Are Deadly  3.5 stars
She Woke to Darkness 3.5 stars

Paul Halter
The Seven Wonders of Crime  2 stars


Barbara Hambly
Those Who Hunt the Night 4 stars 

Bruce Hamilton
Too Much of Water  3.75 stars

Lyn Hamilton
The Xibalba Murders  1 star

Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon 4 stars  
Red Harvest  2 stars

Alan Handley
Terror in Times Square  3 stars

Helene Hanff
84, Charing Cross Road  5 stars

Edward B Hanna
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Whitechapel Horrors  3 stars

Ron Hansen
A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion 3 stars

Michael Hardwick

Cyril Hare (Alfred Gordon Clark)
The Christmas Murder  4 stars
Death Among Friends  4 stars
Suicide Excepted  4 stars 
Tragedy at Law 4 stars


Kathryn Harkup
A Is For Arsenic  4 stars

Claire Harmon
Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London  3 stars

David P. Harmon
The Deadly Years  4 stars 

Michael S. Harper

Lee Harris

Lynn Harris

Cora Harrison

Anne Hart

Ellen Hart
Hallowed Murder  3 stars
Sweet Poison  2 stars

Erin Hart
Haunted Ground  3.75 stars
Lake of Sorrows 3 stars

Donald K. Hartman

John Harwood
The Ghost Writer  3 stars 

Robin Hathaway

Thomas Brace Haughey
The Invisible Thief  4 stars

Pete Hautman
The Prop  3.5 stars

John Hawk

Mavis Doriel Hay

Sheridan Hay

Howard Haycraft (ed)
 
S. T. Haymon
Death of a God 3 stars 
A Very Particular Murder   Review Part II   3.5 stars

Conrad Haynes
Perpetual Check  3 stars

Marcus Hearn

The Avengers: A Celebration  5 stars 
 
Robert Heinlein
6 X H: Six Stories  3 stars

James B. Hendryx
Blood of the North  3 stars

O. Henry
The Four Million & Other Stories 4 stars 

Sarah J. Henry
A Cold & Lonely Place  4 stars


Katharine Hepburn
The Making of The African Queen  4 sars

Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah   3 stars

Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom
The Jesus Incident 1 star

Hergé (Georges Prosper Remi) 
Tintin in America  3.5 stars 
 
Dann Herr & Joel Wells (eds)
Bodies & Souls  3 stars


John Hersey
Into the Valley  3.5 stars 

Georgette Heyer
Black Sheep  3 stars
A Blunt Instrument    4 stars
The Corinthian  3.5 stars (audio version)
Cousin Kate (read by Jilly Bond)  3 stars
Death in the Stocks  4 stars
Detection Unlimited  4 stars
Duplicate Death  3.5 stars   
Envious Casca  3 stars
Faro's Daughter  4 stars
Footsteps in the Dark  3.5 stars
No Wind of Blame  4 stars
Penhallow  3 stars
Powder & Patch  3.5 stars 
Regency Buck  3 stars
The Talisman Ring  3 stars
They Found Him Dead   4 stars  
The Unfinished Clue  3 stars  
Venetia  4 stars  
Why Shoot a Butler?  4 stars

Jack Higgins
The Eagle Has Landed  4 stars
The Night of the Fox  4 stars

Patricia Highsmith
Slowly, Slowly in the Wind 4 stars

Eileen Hill
The Candle Shop Mystery  3 stars

Grace Livingston Hill
Crimson Roses  5 stars  
Where Two Ways Met  3 stars

Reginald Hill
Who Guards a Prince  2 stars

Susan Hill

John Buxton Hilton
Playground of Death  2.5 stars
Ransom Game  3 stars 
Target of Suspicion  2 stars 

Chester Himes
Blind Man with a Pistol 3 stars

Jane Hirshfield w/Mariko Aratan (trans by)
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Onon no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan 4 stars

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery  4 stars (as edited by)
The Best of Mystery  3 stars
A Hangman's Dozen  3 stars
Happiness Is a Warm Corpse  3 stars (as edited by)
Stories Not for the Nervous  3 stars

Donald Bayne Hobart
The Clue of the Leather Noose  2.75 stars

Blake Hoena
The Tower of London: A Chilling Interactive Adventure  4 stars

Noni Hogrogian (adapted & illustrated by)
The Contest   3 stars

Genevieve Holden
Killer Loose!  3 stars

Culley Holderfield 
Hemlock Hollow  4 stars

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
The Old Battle Axe/The Obstinate Murderer  3 stars

The Blank Wall (DNF)
The Unfinished Crime  3.75 stars

David Holland
The Devil in Bellminster  3 stars

Sheri Holman
The Dress Lodger  .5 star

Marilyn F. Holmer
Beaver Stream  3 stars

Hazel Holt

Victoria Holt

Susan Holtzer
Something to Kill For 4 stars   

Geoffrey Homes
Dead as a Dummy  3.5 stars
Then There Were Three  4 stars

Margaret Page Hood
The Silent Women  3.5 stars

Anthony Hope
The Prisoner of Zenda  4 stars

Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbsey Twins at London Tower  3 stars

The Bobbsey Twins' Search in the Great City  3 stars

Laurence Hope
India's Love Lyrics  1 star

Kenneth Hopkins
Body Blow  3 stars
Dead Against My Principles  4 stars

Stanley Hopkins, Jr. 
The Parchment Key  3.5 stars

Nick Hornby
A Long Way Down  unrated

Jane Horning

E. W. Hornung
Raffles  3 stars

Anthony Horowitz
Magpie Murders  5 stars 
Moonflower Murders  3.5 stars

Jonathan L. Howard

Vechel Howard

Geoffrey Homes
Dead as a Dummy 3.5 stars

S. P. Hozy  
The Scarlet Macaw  4 stars  

Christopher Huang

Wenguang Huang 

L. Ron Hubbard
The Trail of the Red Diamonds  2 stars

Maria Hudgins
Death in an Ivory Tower  3 stars
Death of an Obnoxious Tourist  2.5 stars

Dorothy B Hughes
The Bamboo Blonde  2 stars  
Ride the Pink Horse   3 stars
The So Blue Marble 4 stars

Roland Hughes
John Smith: Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars  2 stars

Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown's Schooldays  3 stars

Helen Joan Hultman

Helen Humphreys
The  Lost Garden  4 stars 

Fergus Hume
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab  3.25 stars

Alan Hunter 
Gently Go Man  1.5 stars  
Gently in the Sun  3 stars
Gently with the Painters  stars 

Shaun David Hutchinson
The Deathday Letter  4 stars 

J. F. Hutton
Too Good to Be True  3 stars


Ann Huxley
Four Against the Bank of England  3.75 stars

Elspeth Huxley
Treachery in the Yard  2.5 stars

Hammond Innes
Blue Ice  3 stars
Gale Warning  3.5 stars

Michael Innes
The Bloody Wood  2 stars
A Comedy of Terrors 
The Gay Phoenix  2 stars 
Hare Sitting Up  3.5 stars
Honeybath's Haven 1 star
Lament for a Maker  3 stars
The Long Farewell  4 stars 
Lord Mullion's Secret  3 stars
The Paper Thunderbolt  3.75 stars

Silence Observed 3.5 stars 
What Happened at Hazelwood?  3 stars

Elizabeth Ironside

Jane Isenberg
Hot & Bothered  3.5 stars

Claude Izner

Kate Jackson
The Pocket Detective: 100+ Puzzles  5 stars

Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House  3.5 stars
We Have Always Lived in the Castle  1 star

Brian Jacques
Mossflower  4 stars

David Jaher
The Witch of Lime Street  3 stars
Murder on the Waterfront  3 stars 
Murder on Theatre Row  3 stars

Anna James

Miranda James
Murder Past Due  3 stars

M. R. James  
The Haunted Dolls' House  3.5 stars

P. D. James
Innocent Blood  3.5 stars

Susan James
Foul Deeds  2.5 stars

Sébastien Japrisot
The 10:30 from Marseille (aka Compartiment Tuers AND The Sleeping Car Murders)  3 stars

H. Paul Jeffers
Murder on Mike  3.5 stars

Gary Jeffrey
 
Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat  3.5 stars

Owen Fox Jerome
The Five Assassins  4 stars

Mai Jia
Decoded  unrated

Veronica Parker Johns
Servant's Problem  3.75 stars

Dana Johnson
Break Any Woman Down  4 stars 


Mike Johnson
Star Trek Vol 1 3 stars

W. Bolingbroke Johnson (Morris Bishop)
 
D J H Jones
Murder at the MLA 3 stars 

Gareth P. Jones

Jennifer Jordan

Norton Juster

Kristiana Kahakauwila
This Is Paradise  4.5 stars

Lucille Kallen
C. B. Greenfield: A Little Madness  2 stars
Introducing C. B. Greenfield  2 stars

Stuart Kaminsky
Bullet for a Star  3 stars

Henry Kane

Rebecca Kanner
Sinners & the Sea  4.5 stars

Robert Kaplow
Who's Killing the Great Writers of America?  1 star

M. R. C. Kasasian
The Mangle Street Murders  3 stars

David A. Kaufelt  
The Winter Women Murders  2 stars

Vladimir Kavčič 
The Golden Bird 3 stars

M. M. Kaye
Death in the Andamans  3.5 stars
Death in Berlin  3 stars
Death in Cyprus  4 stars

Death in Kashmir  3.5 stars 
Death in Kenya  3.5 stars
Death in Zanzibar 3.5 stars

Marvin Kaye
Bullets for MacBeth  3 stars

Bill Keane
For This I Went to College?  3.5 stars

H. R. F. Keating 
 
Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books  4 stars  
Into the Valley of Death  3.5 stars [as Evelyn Hervey]
Is Skin Deep, Is Fatal  1.5 stars

Murder by Death  3 stars (under "Henry" instead of "H.R.F.")
The Perfect Murder unrated

Ezra Jack Keats
The Snowy Day

Claire Keegan
 
Harry Stephen Keeler
The Riddle of the Traveling Skull  3 stars

Carolyn Keene
The Triple Hoax  3 stars
The Witch Tree Symbol  3 stars

Carlton Keith
The Diamond-Studded Typewriter  4 stars

Eric Keith 
Nine Man's Murder 4.5 stars  

John Kelly
The Pig on the Hill (read by Pierce Brosnan)  5 stars

Mary Kelly
Dead Man's Riddle  3.5 stars

Susan Kelly
And Soon I'll Come to Kill You  2 stars
The Gemini Man 3 stars 

Vera Kelsey
Whisper Murder!  3 stars

Harry Kemelman
Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet  2 stars

Harold Kemp
Death of a Dwarf  4 stars 
Red for Murder  3.5 stars 
 

Thomas Keneally
Schindler's List (Schindler's Ark)  3 stars
 
Carol Kendall
The Black Seven 3 stars

Baynard Kendrick
Blind Man's Bluff  4 stars
Death Knell   3 stars
Out of Control  3 stars
 
Susan Kenney
Garden of Malice 2.5 stars  


Kathryn Kenny
Kill the Butler!  1.5 stars

Philip Kerr
March Violets  3.5 stars

Tracey Kiely
Murder with a Twist  4 stars


Diana Killian
High Rhymes & Misdemeanors  3 stars

Alice Kimberly
The Ghost & the Dead Deb 2.5 stars 

Frank King
The Case of the Painted Girl  4 stars

Laurie R. King

Rufus King
Holiday Homicide  4 stars

Stephen King
11/22/63   2 stars

Magdalen King-Hall
The Life & Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton  2.5 stars

Kate Kingsbury
Check-Out Time  2 stars
Death Is in the Air  3 stars 
Grounds for Murder 3 stars

C. H. B. Kitchen
Death of My Aunt  2.75 stars

Eric Klinenberg

Leslie S. Klinger
 
Kate & M. Sarah Klise
Grammy Lamby & the Secret Handshake  4 stars

Adam Knight
The Sunburned Corpse  1 star

Father Ronald Knox 
Double Cross Purposes  4 stars
The Footsteps at the Lock   3.5 stars

Tom Knox 
The Genesis Secret  2.5 stars
 
Robert Portner Koehler

Dean Koontz
Fear Nothing Vol 1  4 stars 

Samuel M. Kootz
Puzzle in Petticoats  3.5 stars


Michael Kurland (ed)

Deryn Lake
Death in Hellfire

M. D. Lake
Grave Choices  3.5 stars
Once Upon a Crime  3 stars 

Andrew Lang
The Red Fairy Book  4 stars
The Yellow Fairy Book  3 stars

Henry Lang
The Corpse on the Hearth  2 stars

J. A. Lang
Chef Maurice & a Spot of Truffle  4 stars

Jane Langton
The Dante Game  2.5 stars
Dead as a Dodo  2 stars

Erik Larson
 
Emma Lathen (Mary Jane Latis & Martha Henissart)
Ashes to Ashes  3.5 stars
The Longer the Thread  2 stars
A Stitch in Time  3 stars 

Jonathan Latimer
The Lady in the Morgue  3 stars


Janet Laurence
A Tasty Way to Die  3 stars

Hilda Lawrence
Blood Upon the Snow  2.5 stars
Death of a Doll  2 stars
The Pavilion  2.75 stars

John le Carré  

Call for the Dead  5 stars
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold  5 stars

Ann Leckie
 
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

Marie Lee
The Curious Cape Cod Skull 3 stars

Gypsy Rose Lee
Mother Finds a Body  2 stars

Y. S. Lee
The Agency: The Body at the Tower
The Agency: A Spy in the House

Hannah Lees & Lawrence Bachmann
Death in the Doll's House  3 stars

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories
Uncle Silas
 (3 stars)

Ursula K. LeGuin
The Lathe of Heaven  2.5 stars
The Wind's Twelve Quarters  3.5 stars

Con Lehane
Murder at the 42nd Street Library  1 star (maybe)

Elizabeth Lemarchand
The Affacombe Affair  4 stars
Death of an Old Girl 3.5 stars  
Unhappy Returns  3 stars

Madeleine L'Engle

Charles Leonard
Search for a Scientist 3.5 stars

Elmore Leonard
The Big Bounce  1 star

Gaston Leroux
The Mystery of the Yellow Room 3 stars
The Phantom of the Opera  4 stars

Doris Lessing
Alfred & Emily 3 stars

Will Levinrew
The Wheelchair Corpse  4 stars

Ann Margaret Lewis
Murder in the Vatican  4 stars

C. S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe 5 stars
Mere Christianity  3 stars
Out of the Silent Planet  4.5 stars
Perelandra  2.5 stars
Prince Caspian  4 stars
Surprised by Joy 3 stars  
That Hideous Strength  3 stars

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, & Nate Powell
March: Book One  5 stars
March: Book Two  5 stars
March: Book Three  5 stars

Lange Lewis (Jane Lewis Brandt)
The Birthday Murder  4 stars
Juliet Dies Twice 3.5 stars
Meat for Murder  3 stars

Grace Lin
When the Sea Turned to Silver 4.5 stars

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Gift from the Sea 4 stars 

Elinor Lipman
The Inn at Lake Devine 4 stars

Laura Lippmann
After I'm Gone  4 stars
The Girl in the Green Raincoat  4 stars (Review #2)

Constance & Gwenyth Little
Black-Headed Pins  4 stars
The Black Rustle  3 stars
The Black Thumb  2 stars

Walter Livingston
The Mystery of Burnleigh Manor  3 stars 

Frances & Richard Lockridge
Accent on Murder 3.5 stars  Second Review  4 stars
And Left for Dead  3.25 stars
Death of an Angel  4 stars  
Death of a Tall Man  4 stars
Death of a Tall Man [take two]
Death on the Aisle   4 stars
Death Takes a Bow 4 stars  Second Review  
Die Laughing  3.5 stars 
The Golden Man  3 stars
Murder in a Hurry  4 stars
Murder Is Served 3.5 stars 
Murder Is Suggested   4 stars  [Second Review]
Murder Out of Turn  5 stars
Murder Within Murder  4 stars 
Murder Within Murder (2nd review)  4 stars
The Norths Meet Murder  4.5 stars

The Old Die Young [Richard only]  3 stars 
Payoff for the Banker  4 stars
A Pinch of Poison  5 stars
Preach No More  3 stars
Stand Up & Die  4 stars
Think of Death  3.5 stars
The Ticking Clock  2 stars 

Trial by Terror  4 stars
Untidy Murder  3.5 stars
Voyage Into Violence  4 stars  Second Review
With One Stone  3 stars

Richard Lockridge
Murder Roundabout  3.5 stars

David Lodge
Therapy  2 stars

Kylie Logan
A Tale of Two Biddies  3 stars

Mary Logue
Bone Harvest  4 stars

Jack London
The Call of the Wild 4 stars

Amelia Reynolds Long

Jack Long
The Vanishing Professor  4 stars

M. L. Longworth
Murder on the Rue Dumas 3 stars

E. C. R. Lorac
Fire in the Thatch  4 stars
Two-Way Murder  4.5 stars

Walter Lord
A Night to Remember  

M. K. Lorens
Deception Island 2.5 stars 

H. P. Lovecraft
"The Call of Cthulhu"  2 stars 

Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy & Tacy Go Downtown  5 stars

Peter Lovesey 
The False Inspector Dew  4.5 stars 

Gary Lovisi
Sherlock Homes & Mr. Mac  4 stars

Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Lodger  3.5 stars

Lois Lowry
The Giver  4 stars

MIriam Lynch

John D. MacDonald
Dress Her in Indigo   3 stars 
Murder in the Wind  3.5 stars
Other Times, Other Worlds  4 stars

Philip MacDonald
Death & Chicanery  3 stars
Guest in the House  3 stars 

Helen MacInnes
Decision at Delphi 4 stars

Allan MacKinnon
House of Darkness  5 stars


Sarah MacLean
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake   3 stars

Charlotte MacLeod
Christmas Stalkings  2.5 stars
Mistletoe Mysteries   3.5 stars 
Something the Cat Dragged In  3.5 stars
Vane Pursuit  3.5 stars

Susan Elia MacNeal
Mr. Churchill's Secretary  3 stars
 
Rett MacPherson
Family Skeletons  3 stars

Mary Malloy
The Wonder Chamber  2 stars

Ted Malone (ed)

Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven  4.5 stars
 
Alberto Manguel
 
Henning Mankell
Faceless Killers  2.5 stars
The Man from Beijing  2.5 stars
One Step Behind  4 stars
The Return of the Dancing Master  4 stars 

Cynthia Manson (ed)
Murder at Teatime  3.5 stars

Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, eds
Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come 3 stars

Leo Margulies (ed)
Mink Is for a Minx 3 stars

Mark Marimen
Haunted Indiana  3 stars

Virgil Markham
Red Warning  3 stars

Tinker Marks
Theoretically Dead  2.5 stars

Margaret Maron
Corpus Christmas  3 stars

John P. Marquand
Your Turn, Mr. Moto 3 stars

J. J. Marric
Gideon's Month 2 stars
Gideon's Power

Ngaio Marsh
Artists in Crime  4 stars
Enter a Murderer   4 stars
False Scent  3.75 stars
Final Curtain  4 stars
Hand in Glove 3.75 stars
Killer Dolphin  4 stars
Killer Dolphin 2nd Review  3.5 stars
A Man Lay Dead  3.5 stars
Money in the Morgue  3.75 stars  Marsh work finished by Stella Duffy
The Nursing Home Murder  3.5 stars
Opening Night  4 stars
Overture to Death  3.5 stars  Audio Version read by Wanda McCaddon
Scales of Justice  4 stars
Singing in the Shrouds  3.5 stars
Spinsters in Jeopardy  2 stars
When in Rome/Opening Night (BBC radio drama)  3 stars
A Wreath for Rivera/Swing, Brother, Swing  3 stars

Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath
Star Trek: The New Voyages  4 stars

A. E. Martin
The Bridal Bed Murders  2 stars


Andrew Martin
The Necropolis Railway 2.5 stars

Steve Martin
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life  4 stars
Valerie Martin
Mary Reilly  3.5 stars

Sandra Martz (ed)
When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple  4 stars

Robert Masello
The Jekyll Revelation  3 stars

A. E. W. Mason
The House of the Arrow  3.5 stars
Murder at the Villa Rose  3.5 stars

Van Wyck Mason
The Budapest Parade Murders  3.5 stars
Zanzibar Intrigue  3.5 stars

J C Masterman
An Oxford Tragedy  3.5 stars

Adrian Matejka
The Big Smoke  5 stars

Stefanie Matteson
Murder at Teatime 3 stars 

Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer  1 star

Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil  4 stars

Jessa Maxwell
The Golden Spoon  3 stars
 
Peter Mayle
The Corsican Caper  3 stars

Ed McBain 
Ax  3.5 stars

Anne McCaffrey
The White Dragon 2 stars

Carol McCleary
The Illusion of Murder  3.5 stars

Helen McCloy
Mr. Splitfoot  3.5 stars
Panic  4 stars
A Question of Time 3 stars
Through a Glass, Darkly  4 stars 
Who's Calling?  4 stars

Sharyn McCrumb

Carson McCullers

Vonda McIntyre
Dreamsnake  5 stars 
The Entropy Effect  3.5 stars

Jean McKechnie
Penny Allen & the Mystery of the Hidden Treasure  3 stars 

Patrick McManus

Larry McMurty
Books  2 stars

Adam McOmber
The Ghost Finders  4.5 stars
My House Gathers Desires  5 stars
This New & Poisonous Air  4 stars 
The White Forest 4.5 stars  

Catriona McPherson
The Fantastic Civil War  3 stars

Sue McVeigh
The Corpse & 3 Ex-Husbands  3 stars

Tom Mead

Tony Medawar (ed)
Bodies from the Library 3  4 stars

M. R. D. Meek 
Kemp's Last Case  2.5 stars

Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life  3.5 stars

Leslie Meier
Birthday Party Murder  2.5 stars
Trick or Treat Murder  2 stars

Denis Meikle
Vincent Price: The Art of Fear 3 stars

Alan Melville
Quick Curtain 4 stars
Weekend at Thrackley  4.5 stars

Karen Baugh Menuhin
Murder at Melrose Court  3.5 stars 

D. E. Meredith
Devoured 3 stars  

A. Merritt
Seven Footprints to Satan  3.5 stars 

Sam Merwin, Jr.
 
Beverle Graves Meyers
Whispers of Vivaldi  3 stars

Joseph Meyers & E. B. Williams (eds)

Avon Mystery Story Teller  4 stars 

Ski Michaels
Fun in the Sun  3 stars

Barry Miles
The British Invasion  3.5 stars 

Nancy Milford
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay  4 stars

Margaret Millar
Beast in View 4 stars
Fire Will Freeze  3 stars
A Stranger in My Grave 3.5 stars

Ron Miller
Mystery! A Celebration  4 stars

Mark Mills
The Savage Garden  3.5 stars

A. A. Milne
Four Days' Wonder  4 stars
The House at Pooh Corner 5 stars 
The Red House Mystery  4 stars
The Red House Mystery  4 stars (reread)
Winnie-the-Pooh  5 stars 
The World of Christopher Robin 4 stars 

Gladys Mitchell 
A Hearse on May-Day  3 stars
Spotted Hemlock 3 stars
Uncoffin'd Clay  3 stars

Margaret Mitchell
Lost Laysen  3 stars

Roger Mitchell
Braid   2 stars
The Word for Everything  3 stars

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Selections from the Essays of Montaigne  unrated

L. M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables 3 stars

R. A. Montgomery
Prisoner of the Ant People (CYOA)   2 stars

Michael Moorcock
Behold the Man

Alan Moore
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2 stars

Barbara Moore
The Doberman Wore Black  3 stars


Clement Moore, et al
The Night Before Christmas Profusely Illustrated   3 stars 

Erin Morgenstern 
The Night Circus 3 stars

Christopher Morley
The Arrow  2.5 stars
The Haunted Bookshop  5 stars 
Kathleen  5 stars
Parnassus on Wheels  4 stars

Dermot Morrah
The Mummy Case Mystery 4 stars 

David Morrell

Bill Morrison (adapted by)

Kate Morton
 
Walter Mosley
Devil in a Blue Dress  3 stars

Sarah Moss
 
Cold Earth  2 stars

Jojo Moyes
Me Before You  4.5 stars

Patricia Moyes
Black Widower  2.75 stars
Many Deadly Returns  2.75 stars
Murder Fantastical  4 stars 
Who Is Simon Warwick?  4.5 stars

Diane Muldrow
 
Marcia Muller
The Cavalier in White  3 stars 
There Hangs a Knife  3 stars
 

J. J. Murphy  
Murder Your Darlings  3 stars  

Max Murray
The Queen & the Corpse  3 stars

Paul Murray
Hopeland (aka Skippy Dies part one)  1.5 stars

Amy Myers
Murder at the Masque  2.5 stars 
  

Magdalen Nabb
Death of a Dutchman  2 stars
Death of an Englishman  3 stars
The Monster of Florence  2 stars

James Napoli
The Official Dictionary of Sarcasm 3 stars

Anne Nash
Said With Flowers   3.5 stars

Simon Nash 
Dead of a Counterplot  4 stars 
Death Over Deep Water  3 stars 
Unhallowed Murder  4 stars


Sosuke Natsukawa
The Cat Who Saved Books  4 stars

Frederick Nebel
Six Deadly Dames  2.5 stars

Hugh Lawrence Nelson
The Title is Murder  3.75 stars

E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Enchanted Castle  4 stars

Häkan Nesser
Borkmann's Point  3 stars
 
Jack Newfield
Robert F. Kennedy: A Memoir

Robert Newman
The Case of the Baker Street Irregular  3.5 stars

William Newton
The Two-Pound Tram  4stars

Chester Nez (with Judith Schiess Avila)
Code Talker  5 stars  

Meredith Nicholas
The House of a Thousand Candles 3 stars

Nichelle Nichols
Beyond Uhura: Star Trek & Other Memories  4 stars
 
Dean Nicholson w/Garry Jenkins
Nala's World  4 stars

Harry Nicholson
Tom Fleck: A Novel of Cleveland & Flodden  4 stars

Chris Nickson
Gods of Gold  3 stars

Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife 4.5 stars  

Larry Niven
Ringworld  2 stars

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
The Mote in God's Eye   3 stars

Garth Nix
Sabriel  3 stars

Robert Nordan
The Last Noel  3 stars

Claire North
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August  1.5 stars

Graham Norton
Holding  3.5 stars
 
Mary Norton
Bed-Knob and Broomstick  4 stars

Jim Noy

Michelle Obama
Becoming  5 stars

Edna O'Brien
 
Flann O'Brien

Robert C. O'Brien
Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH  5 stars
Z for Zachariah 3.5 stars 

Jerome Odlum
The Mirabilis Diamond  3 stars

Paraic O'Donnell

Maggie O'Farrell
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox  4.5 stars

Lenore Glen Offord
The Glass Mask  2.5 stars

Anthony Oliver
Cover-Up 3 stars 
The Elberg Collection  3 stars 

D. B. Olsen (Dolores Hitchens)
The Cat Saw Murder  3.5 stars
Cats Don't Smile  3.5 stars
The Clue in the Clay  3.5 stars
Death Walks on Cat Feet  3.75 stars

Sister Carol Anne O'Marie
Murder in Ordinary Time  3 stars

Hank O'Neal
XCIA's Street Project  4 stars

Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel  4 stars

Juan Ortiz
Star Trek: The Art of Juan Ortiz 5 stars 

Richard Osman
The Thursday Murder Club  4 stars

Grant Overton (ed)
The World's 100 Best Short Stories, Vol. III: Mystery 3 stars

Hans C. Owen
Fit to Kill 3 stars

Edward Packard
The Cave of Time  (CYOA)  4 stars
The Mystery of Chimney Rock (CYOA)  5 stars

Frank L. Packard
 
Lewis Padgett
The Day He Died  3 stars
 

Emma Page
Add a Pinch of Cyanide  2.5 stars
Every Second Thursday 3 stars

Helena S. Page
A Girl Walks Into a Bar  2.5 stars

Katherine Hall Page

Marco Page
The Shadowy Third  2.5 stars

Bernadette Pajer
Capacity for Murder  4 stars  
The Edison Effect  4 stars
Fatal Induction 4 stars
A Spark of Death 4 stars

Scott Palmer
The Films of Agatha Christie  4 stars

Stuart Palmer 
Cold Poison  3 stars

 Four Lost Ladies 2 stars  
The Puzzle of the Silver Persian 3.5 stars
Unhappy Hooligan  3 stars


Kate Parker
The Vanishing Thief  3.5 stars

Robert B. Parker
The Godwulf Manuscript  3.5 stars

Q. Patrick
Murder at Cambridge  4 stars 

Elliot Paul
Mayhem in B-Flat  3.5 stars

T. Aaron Payton
The Constantine Affliction 4 stars

Caro Peacock
A Foreign Affair

Michael Pearce
A Dead Man in Athens  3 stars
A Dead Man in Istanbul  3 stars
A Dead Man in Trieste  2 stars

Matthew Pearl
The Poe Shadow  1 star

Robb Pearlman
Search for Spock: A Star Trek Book of Exploration  4 stars

Jay Pearsall 
Mystery & Crime: NYPL Book of Answers  2.75 stars

Howard Pease
The Tattooed Man  3 stars
 
Sarah Pennypacker
Pax  4 stars
 
John Penn
An Ad for Murder  3.5 stars
Stag Dinner Death  3 stars

Hugh Pentecost
The 24th Horse  4 stars
Time of Terror  3 stars
Where the Snow Was Red  4 stars

Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The Club Dumas  3.75 stars 
The Fencing Master 4 stars

Anne Perry
Angels in the Gloom  3 stars
Bluegate Fields  3.5 stars
Callender Square  3.5 stars
Paragon Walk  3 stars
Rutland Place  3 stars

Elizabeth Peters

Crocodile on the Sandbank  4 stars 
 
Audrey Peterson
Murder in Burgundy  3 stars

Bernard Peterson
The Caravaggio Books  2 stars

Arthur Phillips
The Egyptologist  2.5 stars

Irving Phillips
The Strange World of Mr. Mum 3 stars 

Eden Phillpotts
The Red Redmaynes  3 stars

Nancy Pickard
No Body  3 stars

Sean Pidgeon
Finding Camlann  2 stars

Rajendra Pillai
Mysterious Incidents at Lone Rock 3 stars

Sheila Pim
Hive of Suspects

Stefanie Pintoff
A Curtain Falls  3.5 stars
In the Shadow of Gotham  3 stars
Secret of the White Rose  3 stars

Mary Plum
Susanna, Don't You Cry!  3. 5 stars

Edgar Allan Poe
Steampunk Poe (illustrated by Zdenko Basic & Manuel Numberac) 4 stars

Sidney Poitier
 
The Measure of a Man  4.25 stars 

Zelda Popkin
Dead Man's Gift  2.75 stars

Maggie Pouncey
The Perfect Reader  DNF

Julie Powell
Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously  2 stars

Richard Powell 
And Hope to Die  1 star
Shell Game  3 stars 

Terry Pratchett
Unseen Academicals 3 stars

E. K. Prescott
The Ivy League Chronicles: 9 Squares  1 star

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Beyond the Ice Limit  4 stars

Relic  4 stars
Reliquary  3 stars
Still Life with Crows  4 stars

Cate Price
A Dollhouse to Die For  3 stars
Lie of the Needle 3.5 stars

Mary & Vincent Price
A Treasury of Great Recipes  4 stars

J. B. Priestly
The Old Dark House  2 stars
Salt Is Leaving 3.5 stars

Maurice Procter

Milton Propper
One Murdered: Two Dead  3.5 stars

Alan Pruitt
The Restless Corpse 3 stars 

E. R. Punshon
Information Received  4 stars

Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn  4 stars

Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49  unrated 

Ellery Queen (Frederic Danny & Manfred Lee)
The King Is Dead  3.5 stars
Murder by Experts  3.75 stars (edited by) 
Murder With a Past 2 stars
The New Adventures of Ellery Queen  4 stars
Queen's Quorum  3.75 stars
The Spanish Cape Mystery  4 stars
The Vanishing Corpse  3.5 stars
Ellery Queen's 20th Anniversary Annual by Ellery Queen, ed  4 stars
Ellery Queen's Challenge to the Reader by Ellery Queen, ed 3.75 stars 

Ellery Queen (ed/as ed by)
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Oct 1965 (ed by Clayton Rawson)  4 stars
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Jan 1996  3 stars

Ellery Queen, Jr.
The Green Turtle Mystery 4 stars 
The White Elephant Mystery  3.5 stars

Patrick Quentin
Black Widow  2 stars
The Fate of the Immodest Blonde  2 stars

Erica Quest
Design for Murder  3 stars


Amanda Quick
Garden of Lie 4 stars
'Til Death Do Us Part  3 stars

Monica Quill
Nun-Plussed 3 stars 

D. M. Quincy
E. & M. A. Radford

Sheila Radley   
The Chief Inspector's Daughter  3 stars
The Quiet Road to Death  3 stars 

Randy Rainbow
Playing with Myself  4 stars

Tony Randall & Michael Mindlin
Which Reminds Me  2.5 stars

Robert J. Randisi
Luck Be a Lady, Don't Die  3 stars

Robert Rankin
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse  3 stars

Ellen Raskin
The Westing Game 3 stars

Clayton Rawson
The Footprints on the Ceiling  3.5 stars

Deanna Raybourn
Dark Road to Darjeeling  4 stars

Reader's Digest
Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, & Detection  2 stars

Alvin Redman, ed
The Wit & Humor of Oscar Wilde  4 stars

Lesley Reader  
Book Lovers' London  3 stars

Helen Reilly
Certain Sleep 3 stars
Compartment K 2.5 stars 
Dead Man Control 3.75 stars
Death Demands an Audience  3.5 stars
Lament for the Bride  3 stars  
The Line-Up  3.5 stars

Tom Reiss
The Black Count  4 stars

Mary Renault
The Praise Singer  2 stars

Ruth Rendell
The Babes in the Wood  2.75 stars
Road Rage  3.5 stars
Shake Hands Forever  3.5 stars
 A Sleeping Life 3.5 stars   
13 Steps Down  3 stars

Nick Rennison (ed)
Supernatural Sherlocks  3 stars

Louisa Revell
A Silver Spade  4 stars

Leah Rewolinski 
Star Wreck III: Time Warped  3 stars
Star Wreck 6: Geek Space Nine  1 star 

Alastair Reynolds
Zima Blue & Other Stories 3.5 stars

John Rhode
Tragedy at the Unicorn   3.5 stars
 
John Rhode (ed)
Line-Up (The Avon Book of Modern Crime Stories)  4 stars

Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea

Tim Riccardi

Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire  unrated

Craig Rice
The Lucky Stiff  4 stars
The Thursday Turkey Murders 2.5 stars

Craig Rice & Ed McBain
The April Robin Murders  3 stars

A. H. Richardson
Act One, Scene One--Murder   3.5 stars
Murder in Little Shendon 4 stars 

C. S. Richardson
The End of the Alphabet  5 stars  

Robert Richardson
The Lazarus Tree  2.75 stars

Rainer Maria Rilke
Black Sun  4.5 stars

David Roberts
The Quality of Mercy  3.5 stars

Gillian Roberts
Caught Dead in Philadelphia  4 stars
You Can Write a Mystery  4 stars

Lillian S. Robinson
Murder Most Puzzling 2.5 stars  

H. W. Roden
Wake for a Lady 1.5 stars
You Only Hang Once  2.75 stars

Charles Rodrigues
Total Harmonic Distortion  3 stars

Joel Townley Rogers
The Red Right Hand  2.5 stars

Sax Rohmer
The Bat Flies Low  3 stars
The Dream Detective  3 stars 
The Golden Scorpion 3 stars 
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu 3 stars

Anthony Rolls 
Scarweather 3 stars

Edward Ronns
Terror in the Town  3.75 stars

Kelley Roos
If the Shroud Fits  3 stars
Made Up to Kill  4 stars
Murder in Any Language 3.75 stars


Elliott Roosevelt   
A First Class Murder 3 stars 

David Rose (ed)
They Call Me Naughty Lola

Samuel Rosenberg
Naked Is the Best Disguise  1 star. maybe.
 
Palle Rosenkrantz
 
Sara Rosett
Murder in Black Tie  3.5 stars

Barnaby Ross [Ellery Queen]  
The Tragedy of X   3.75 stars
The Tragedy of Y  3.75 stars
The Tragedy of Z  3 stars 

Jonathan Ross 

Kate Ross
A Broken Vessel  4 stars

Christina Rossetti
Poems & Prose  3.5 stars 

Holly Roth
Too Many Doctors  2 stars

Philip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint

Patrick Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind  2 stars

Jed Rubenfeld
The Interpretation of Murder

Hallie Rubenhold
 
Romayne Rubinas
Then Gone  5 stars

Elizabeth Rudnick
The Curse of Maleficent [adapted by]  3 stars

James Runcie

Susan Runholt
The Mystery of the Third Lucretia  3 stars

P. B. Ryan
Still Life with Murder  2 stars

Timothy W. Ryback
Hitler's First Victims  4 stars

Fred Saberhagen
The Holmes-Dracula File  3.75 stars

Aaron Sanders
 
Scott Russell Sanders
The Private History of Awe  5 stars 

Sappho (trans by Paul Roche)
The Love Songs of Sappho  4 stars

Pamela Sargeant & George Zebrowski
Heart of the Sun  3 stars
 
Margaret Sarsfield
Murder at Beechlands  3 stars

Steven Savile & Robert Greenberger
  BBC Audio version (full cast w/Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter)
The Nine Tailors   4 stars  Review II  4 stars
The Nine Tailors  5 stars [audio novel version] Audio version take two
Striding Folly (read by Ian Carmichael)  4 stars
Strong Poison
Strong Poison  5 stars  Audio version read by Ian Carmichael  Audio version take two
Unnatural Death  4 stars  Audio version read by Ian Carmichael
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club  4 stars   Audio Version read by Ian Carmichael
Whose Body?  5 stars  
Whose Body? (audio edition read by David Case)  2 stars (for the edition, not story)  
Sayers on Holmes  3 stars
Stories of the Supernatural (edited by)  2.5 stories

Dorothy L Sayers/Jill Paton Walsh
Thrones, Dominations  4 stars (read by Ian Carmichael)  Second Review  

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Lady in the Loch 2.5 stars

Roger Scarlett (Dorothy Blair & Evelyn Page)
Cat's Paw  3.5 stars

Elizabeth Schaefer
I Am Mr. Spock  5 stars

Margaret Scherf
Glass on the Stairs  3.5 stars
The Green Plaid Pants  3.75 stars 

Diane Schoemperlen
Our Lady of the Lost & Found   4 stars

Piet Schreuders
Paperbacks, U.S.A.  4 stars

George H. Scithers (ed)
Asimov's Choice: Black Holes & Bug-Eyed Monsters  3 stars

Jennifer Scroggin
It's Not All Flowers & Sausages  2 stars

Mabel Seeley
The Chuckling Fingers  3.5 stars
The Crying Sisters  2 stars

Elizabeth Seibert
The Abrus Necklace Mystery  3 stars

William Seil
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Titanic Tragedy  3.5 stars 


Eyes at the Window  1 star

Anya Seton
Katherine

Diane Setterfield
Bellman & Black  2.5 stars
The Thirteenth Tale   4.5 stars

Dr. Seuss
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today 3.5 stars

Anna Sewell
Black Beauty  3 stars

Anne Sexton
Live or Die  4 stars

Andrew Shaffer
Hope Never Dies  3 stars

William Shakespeare
Antony & Cleopatra  3 stars
The Taming of the Shrew 3 stars 

William Shatner w/David Fisher
Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man  4 stars

Richard [Dora] Shattuck 
With Blood & Kisses  (4 stars)
  [apa The Snark Was a Boojum]

Dash Shaw
Clue: Candlestick  3 stars

Charles Sheffield
The Web Between the Worlds 3 stars 

Eric Shepherd
Murder in a Nunnery  3 stars

Lloyd Shepherd
The Poisoned Island  4 stars

James Sherburne
Death's Pale Horse 1 star 


Stephen Sheridan
Murder by the Book  3 stars

M. P. Shiel
The Purple Cloud  2 stars

Ione Sandberg Shriber
Family Affair  3 stars

Nevil Shute
On the Beach  4 stars

Ritch Shydner & Mark Schiff
I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics  1 star

Sam Siciliano
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Angel of the Opera  2.5 stars

Ragna Sigurdardottir 
The Perfect Landscape  2 stars

  
Robert Silverberg
Alpha 2 (edited)  3 stars
The Masks of Time 2 stars 
The Silent Invaders  3 stars
Tom O'Bedlam  2 stars

Clifford D. Simak
Shakespeare's Planet  2 stars

Georges Simenon
Lock 14  2.75 stars
Maigret's Christmas  3.5 stars  
Sunday  2 stars 
The Yellow Dog  3 stars

Dan Simmons
Prayers to Broken Stones 4 stars

Helen Simonson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand b 3.5 stars

Michael Sims (ed)
The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories 3.5 stars
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime 3 stars

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
The Abominable Man  4 stars
The Fire Engine That Disappeared 3 stars 

The Laughing Policeman  4 stars
The Locked Room  3 stars
Roseanna  3.5 stars
The Terrorists  2.5 stars

Edith Skom
The Charles Dickens Murders  2 stars

John Sladek
Black Aura  4 stars
Invisible Green  3.5 stars

Anthony Slayton

Henry Slesar

Cynthia Smith
Silver & Guilt  3 stars

Dean Wesley Smith
Hard Rain  1 star

Denis O. Smith
The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes  4.25 stars

Dodie Smith
I Capture the Castle  4 stars
The One Hundred & One Dalmatians  4 stars

Joan Smith (Britain; 1953- )

Joan Smith (Canada; aka Jennie Gallant)
Behold, A Mystery!

Michael Smith
Station X: Decoding Nazi Secrets  2.75 stars

Sarah Smith

Melinda Snodgrass

C. P. Snow
Death Under Sail  4 stars

Simon Sobo
Commodore  4 stars 

Brent Spiner
Fan Fiction

J. L. Spohr 

Heirs & Spares 4 stars  

Patricia Sprinkle 
 Murder at Markham 3 stars


Dana Stabenow
A Cold Day for Murder  3 stars

Susannah Stacey (Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
Body of Opinion  3 stars
Goodbye, Nanny Gray  3 stars
  
Jonathan Stagge
The Three Fears  4 stars

Veronica Stallwood
Oxford Knot  2 stars

Mark Alan Stamaty
Who Needs Donuts?  4.5 stars

J. B. Stanley
Chili Con Corpses  3 stars

Maura Stanton
Tales of the Supernatural  4 stars

Vincent Starrett
Murder on "B" Deck  3 stars

Daniel Stashower
The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man 3 stars

Kurt Steel
Murder Goes to College  2.5 stars

Gertrude Stein
Blood on the Dining Room Floor  unrated

Chris Steinbrunner and Norman Michaels

The Films of Sherlock Holmes  4 stars

Seth Steinzor
To Join the Lost  2.5 stars

Fred Stemme
The Lieutenant's Whistle 3.5 stars 

Leslie Stephan
Murder R.F.D.  3.5 stars
 
Autumn Stephens (ed)
Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women  4 stars

Dorothy Sterling
Secret of the Old Post Box  4 stars

Stewart Sterling
Down Among the Dead Men  3 stars
Five Alarm Funeral  3 stars
Where There's Smoke 3 stars

Philip Van Doren Stern (ed)
The Pocket Book of Ghost Stories  3.5 stars

Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy  unrated

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson  (encore)
The Suicide Club & Other Stories  3 stars
The Wrong Box (with Lloyd Osbourne)  4 stars

Kate Stine, ed 
The Armchair Detective Book of Lists  4 stars 

Elisabet M. Stone
Murder at the Mardi Gras  3 stars

Bram Stoker
Dracula 4 stars
Dracula (graphic novel; adapted by Naunerle Farr)  5 stars
Lair of the White Worm  2.5 stars

Manning Lee Stokes
Green for a Grave  3 stars

Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead  1 star (maybe less)

Rebecca Stott
Ghostwalk  2 stars
 
Rex Stout
And Be a Villain  4 stars
And Four to Go  4 stars 
Red Threads  2 stars
The Silent Speaker  3 stars
Three Doors to Death  4 stars
Too Many Cooks  4 stars

Kay Cleaver Strahan
The Desert Moon Mystery 3.5 stars

John Stephen Strange (Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett)
Look Your Last  3.5 stars

Gene Stratton-Porter 

A Girl of the Limberlost  3 stars
Laddie: A True Blue Story  5 stars 


Lee Strauss

L. A. G. Strong

All Fall Down  3.5 stars

Theodor Sturgeon
Amok Time  5 stars
Beyond  3 stars
Some of Your Blood  3.5 stars

Mark Sullivan

Margaret Sutton
The Rainbow Riddle  3 stars

James L. Swanson
 
Jean Swanson & Dean James 
By a Woman's Hand  3 stars 

Peter Swanson

Larry D. Sweazy
See Also Murder  3 stars
 
Duane Swierczynski
The Crimes of Dr. Watson  3 stars

Julian Symons
Bland Beginning 2.5 stars 

Akimitsu Takagi
No Patent on Murder  2.5 stars

George Takei
Oh My!  4 stars

Hake Talbot
Rim of the Pit   3 stars 

Booth Tarkington
Beasley's Christmas Party  4 stars 

Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch  1 star
The Secret History  4 stars

Andrew Taylor
The Anatomy of Ghosts 2 stars 

D. J. Taylor
Kept  unrated

Phoebe Atwood Taylor
DeathBlow Hill  3.5 stars

Sarah Stewart Taylor
O' Artful Death 3 stars 

Darwin L. Teilhet
The Talking Sparrow Murders  2.75 stars

Sheldon Teitelbaum & Emmanuel Lottem (eds)
Zion's Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Fiction  4 stars

William F. Temple

The Battle on Venus  3 stars 

Kathleen Tessaro 
Elegance  2.5 stars 


Josephine Tey
The Daughter of Time  5 stars 

Lee Thayer (Emma Redington Lee Thayer)
5 Bullets  3 stars
X Marks the Spot  3.5 stars

Paul Theroux
The Kingdom by the Sea  1 star
Murder in Mount Holly 3 stars

James Francis Thierry
The Adventure of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons  2 stars

Jake & Luke Thoene
 

Sherry Thomas
A Study in Scarlet Women  3.5 stars

Will Thomas
The Black Hand  3.5 stars
Fatal Inquiry  3.5 stars
The Hellfire Conspiracy  4 stars
The Limehouse Text  3.5 stars

Some Danger Involved 5 stars 
To Kingdom Come  3.5 stars

Dustin Thomason
12.21  3.5 stars

Sir Basil Thomson

June Thomson
The Dark Stream  2 stars
No Flowers by Request  3 stars  
A Question of Identity  3.5 stars
The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes  3 stars
Shadow of a Doubt  4 stars 
  
Emily Thorn
Aaron's Serpent 3 stars


Eugene Thwing (ed)
The World's Best 100 Detective Stories Vol. 1  4 stars
The World's Best 100 Detective Stories Vol. 9  2.5 stars

Geoff Tibballs
Zingers, Quips, & One-Liners (editor)  3 stars
  
Alice Tilton (Phoebe Atwood Taylor)
The Hollow Chest 3 stars 

James Tiptree, Jr.

Eve Titus
Basil in Mexico  3.5 stars

Charles Todd  
The Murder Stone  4 stars

J. R. R. Tolkien

Simon Tolkien
The Inheritance   3.5 stars

Louis Tracy

Arthur Train
Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt  3.5 stars

Helen Traubel (ghost-written)

P. L. Travers
Mary Poppins  3 stars 

Alvin Tresselt 
The Beaver Pond  4 stars

Anthony Trollope

Margaret Truman
 
Stuart Turton

Mark Twain

L. C. Tyler 
The Herring in the Library  4 stars 
Ten Little Herrings  4.5 stars 

Walter Tyrer

Neil deGrasse Tyson

David L. Ulin
Smooth Justice  3.5 stars
The Song of Roland (trans by Dorothy L. Sayers)  2 stars

Arthur W. Upfield
Murder Down Under  2.5 stars

Nicola Upson
Two for Sorrow  3 stars

Paula Uruburu
American Eve  2 stars

Wirt Van Arsdale (Martha Wirt Davis)

Janwillem van de Wetering
The Mind-Murders  1 star

Gerard Van der Leun (as by John Watson)

S. S. Van Dine

Dick Van Dyke
Those Funny Kids  3 stars 

Robert Van Gulik

Artie Van Why

Fred Vargas
The Chalk Circle Man  4 stars

Dog Will Have His Day  3.25 stars 
The Three Evangelists 4 stars 

Various

Jules Verne

Luigi Veronelle

Roy Vickers
Date With Danger  3 stars
Maid to Murder  4 stars 

Daniel D. Victor

Stephen Vizinczey

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five

Dan Waddell
Blood Atonement  4 stars 
Blood Detective  3.75 stars

Henry Wade
The Litmore Snatch  4 stars
Mist on the Saltings  3 stars 
New Graves at Great Norne  3.75 stars 

Linda Wagner-Martin
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life  3.5 stars

Bill Walker
Titanic 2012 5 stars 

Edgar Wallace
The Four Just Men  3 stars
The Murder Book of J. G. Reeder  3 stars

Jim Wallace
Terror on the Titanic (CYOA)  4 stars

R. A. J. Walling

Jill Paton Walsh
The Attenbury Emeralds  2 stars  Audio read by Edward Petherbridge  3 stars
The Bad Quarto  3 stars
The Late Scholar  3 stars
A Piece of Justice  3 stars
The Wyndham Case  3 stars

Douglas Warner
Death on a Warm Wind  3 stars

Gertrude Chandler Warner
Tree House Mystery  3 stars

Colin Watson
Hopjoy Was Here  3.5 stars
 
Daisy Waugh
In the Crypt with a Candlestick  2 stars

Dorothy Wayne
Dorothy Dixon & the Double Cousin  3 stars

Henry Kitchell Webster
The Corbin Necklace  3.5 stars
Who Is the Next? 3 stars

Manly W. & Wade Wellman

Anna Mary Wells
Murderer's Choice  3.75 stars

Carolyn Wells
Deep Lake Mystery  2 stars
Murder in the Bookshop  2.5 stars
Ptomaine Street  3 stars

Helen Wells
The Secret of Magnolia Manor  3 stars
Vicki Finds the Answer  3 stars

H. G. Wells
The Croquet Player  3 stars 
The First Men in the Moon 2 stars
The Invisible Man 4 stars
The Island of Dr. Moreau  4 stars   
The Time Machine [Illustrated Classics version] 3 stars

Howard Weinstein
 
Patricia Wentworth
The Girl in the Cellar  3 stars
The Key 4 stars
Nothing Venture  3 stars
Miss Silver Deals With Death  3 stars

Nathanael West

Tracey West
Pixie Tricks: The Greedy Gremlin  3 stars 

Kate Westbrook
The Moneypenny Diaries  2 stars

David Westheimer
Going Public  4 stars

Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence  Unrated  

Betty White 

If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) 3 stars  

Claire Nicholas White (ed)
Standford White: Letters to His Family 2 stars

Ethel Lina White
The Lady Vanishes (aka The Wheel Spins)  2.5 stars 
The Spiral Staircase  4 stars

T. H. White
Darkness at Pemberley  3 stars

Victor L. Whitechurch
Murder at the College   4.5 stars
Murder at the Pageant  4 stars
Thrilling Stories of the Railway (audio)  3.5 stars 

Phyllis A. Whitney
Mystery of the Haunted Pool  4 stars
Seven Tears for Apollo  3 stars

Gregory Widen
Blood Makes Noise  3.5 stars


Kate Douglas Wiggin 
The Birds' Christmas Carol  5 stars  

  
Oscar Wilde

Percival Wilde
Inquest  4 stars
 
Bruce Wilkinson
The Prayer of Jabez  3 stars

Herbert Williams
Avon Ghost Reader  3 stars

Valentine Williams
The Clock Ticks On  3.5 stars
The Portcullis Room  3.5 stars

Laura Wilson

The Lover  1 star

Willow Wilson
Alif the Unseen  4 stars
 
Dilys Winn
Murderess Ink: The Better Half of the Mystery  3 stars

Pauline Glen Winslow
The Brandeburg Hotel  1.5 stars
Copper Gold  DNF

Roy Winsor
Always Lock Your Bedroom Door  3.5 stars

Jacqueline Winspear
Elegy for Eddie  3 stars
An Incomplete Revenge  3 stars
Leaving Everything Most Loved  3 stars

A Lesson in Secrets  4 stars

Mildred A. Wirt
Danger at the Drawbridge  3 stars

P. G. Wodehouse
Full Moon 3 stars
The Girl in Blue  3 stars
Heavy Weather   4 stars
Leave It to Psmith  4 stars
Something New (aka Something Fresh)  4 stars
Thank You, Jeeves  3 stars

David Wojahn  
Mystery Train 3.5 stars  

Marv Wolfman
Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Full Color Comic  3 stars

Donald A. Wollheim
The Hidden Planet (ed. by Wollheim)  3 stars  

Valerie Wolzien
All Hallow's Evil  1.5 stars

H. F. Wood
The Passenger from Scotland Yard  2 stars

Sara Woods
Malice Domestic  3 stars
Nor Live So Long     3 stars
The Third Encounter  3.75 stars

Donald A. Woolheim & Terry Carr (eds)

World's Best Science Fiction: 1966  3 stars

Cornell Woolrich
Black Alibi   3 stars
Rear Window [and other stories]  4 stars

Maryanne Wolf
Proust & the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain 3 stars

Elsie N. Wright
Strange Murders at Greystones unrated  

Jamie Jo Wright
The House on Foster Hill  4 stars

L. R. Wright
The Suspect  3.75 stars

Sally Wright
Publish & Perish 3 stars

Carol E. Wyer
How Not to Murder Your Grumpy  3 stars


Philip Wylie 
Corpses at Indian Stones 4 stars
Triumph  5 stars

John Wyndham 
The Day of the Triffids  4 stars 

Ye Xin
A Pair of Jade Frogs  2.5 stars

Misa Yamamura
The Dark Ring of Murder  3 stars

Joyce Yarrow
The Last Matryoshka  3 stars

Dornford Yates
Blind Corner  3 stars

George Worthing Yates
The Body That Wasn't Uncle  2.5 stars

Jacek Yerka & Harlan Ellison
Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka/The Fiction of Harlan Ellison  5 stars

Seishi Yokomizo
Inugami Curse  4 stars

Jane Yolen 
Briar Rose  5 stars

Margaret Yorke
Silent Witness  3 stars
The Small Hours of the Morning  3 stars 

Edward Young
The Fifth Passenger  4 stars


Felicity Young
The Anatomy of Death 3 stars

Charles Yu
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe  unrated

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Angel's Game  2 stars

Israel Zangwill (& Edgar Allan Poe)
   (with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue")

Roger Zelazny
My Name Is Legion 3.5 stars

M. J. Zellnick

Richard Zimler

Chuck Zito
A Habit for Death  3 stars 

Donald Zochert

Anne Zouroudi

Markus Zusak
The Book Thief  4.5 stars