I read Devil in a Blue Dress  by Walter Mosley a while back, and it left a bad taste in my mouth because it involved child exploitation and ...

When I said I was going on a Dashiell Hammett kick, I meant it.  My goodness, I am enjoying his books!   I feel like, when I read this for t...

My kids love the American Girl books, just like I did as a kid.  I've bought them a lot of the tie-in mysteries over the years, mostly a...

The first time I read this book, fifteenish years ago, I had no real idea who Alan Ladd was.  I definitely had not seen the 1942 version of...

This was not always an easy book to read, but it was a fulfilling one.  There was a point when things took a dark turn where I probably woul...

After rereading Trouble is My Business  by Raymond Chandler last month, I began to crave more hardboiled detective stories of that same era....

No, the title of this post is not a typo.  Alexandre Dumas, the guy who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo  and The Three Musketeers  and so on...