In The Limping Man, a World War II veteran (Lloyd Bridges) encounters spies in postwar London.
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- Elizabeth Foxwell
- I am a writer and editor who serves as managing editor of Clues: A Journal of Detection, the only US scholarly journal on mystery and detective fiction.
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Clues issues
- Clues T-shirts, other products
- CFP: The Global Crime Scene
- CFP: Irish Crime Fiction
- Clues indices and abstracts
- Clues subscription flyer
- Clues 31.1: Hitchcock and adaptation
- Clues 30.2: Paranormal mysteries
- Clues 30.1: New S.S. Van Dine ss
- Clues 29.2: Simenon, Stout, Sayers
- Clues 29.1
- Clues 28.2
- Clues 28.1: Chester Himes
- Clues 27.2: Lesbian Crime Fiction
- Clues 27.1: The Girl Sleuth
- Clues 26.4
- Clues 26.3
- Clues 26.2: Scottish Crime Fiction
- Clues 26.1: Victorian Crime Fiction, pt 2
- Clues 25.3: Margaret Millar
- Clues 25.2: Sara Paretsky
- Clues 25.1: Victorian Crime Fiction, pt 1
- Clues 24.3: Hispanic Detective Fiction
- Clues 23.2: Dashiell Hammett
- Clues 23.1: Margery Allingham
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The Lighter Side of Mystery
- Anthony Berkeley Cox: Jugged Journalism
- B Hope/J Webb: "Dragnet" Spoof
- Carson/Webb: Dragnet "Copper Clappers"
- Dog noir
- Dr. Seuss becomes John Dickson Carr
- Erle Stanley Gardner's "Plot Wheel"
- Grammar noir
- Mad TV: CSI-Mayberry
- Parnell Hall & Friends: King of Kindle
- Popeye, PI
- R Benchley: How to Be a Detective
- SCTV: Klagg, Swedish Detective
- Seinfeld: Mr. Bookman, library detective
- Sesame St: L&O Special Letters Unit
- Sesame St: The 39 Stairs
- Soupy Sales: Adventures of Philo Kvetch
- Stan Freberg: Sam Splayed, Detective
- The Periodic Table of Storytelling
Neglected Mystery TV/Film
- "Committed" (1954) w/Alan Ladd.
- "The Squeeze" (1953) w/Dick Powell
- Belloc Lowndes's Ivy (1947).
- Cain's Slightly Scarlet (1956).
- Caspary's Three Husbands (1951).
- Cheever/Armstrong's "The Five-Forty-Eight" (1960).
- Christie's Love from a Stranger (1937).
- Conan Doyle speaks (1927).
- Croft-Cooke's Fatal Witness (1945).
- de la Torre's "The Older Sister" (1956)
- Doris Miles Disney's Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutiliate (1971).
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis's "Backward, Turn Backward" (1960).
- Faulkner's "Error in Chemistry" (1954).
- Fletcher's Night Watch (1973).
- Gilbert's "You'll Be the Death of Me" (1963).
- Hammett's "Two Sharp Knives" (1949).
- He Walked by Night (1948).
- Heyer's The Reluctant Widow (1950).
- Hughes's The Hanged Man (1964).
- Kendrick's Eyes in the Night (1942).
- Lawrence Treat's "The Debt" (1952).
- Lawrence's "The Long Silence" (1963).
- Millar's "Rose's Last Summer" (1960).
- Rinehart's The Bat (1959).
- Sayers's "Suspicion" (1951).
- Woolrich's Fear in the Night (1947).
"Best of" Lists, Mysteries
- A Short-Story Reading List, 1920
- Amateur detectives, 1910
- Barzun & Taylor's classic crime novels
- Boucher: Best debuts of 1962
- Carleton Morse's 10 favorite mysteries, 1943.
- Dorothy B. Hughes: Best mysteries of 1953
- Dozen best detective stories ever written
- Graham Greene's picks, neglected books
- Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone List
- Josef Hoffmann: Best essays on crime fiction
- Mystery Loves Company's Best Mysteries of the 20th Century
- Rex Stout's picks, 10 best detective stories
- The favorite mystery writers of 1941
- The Times' recommended mysteries, 1936
- Top 50 locked-room mysteries
Posts on the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone list
- James Gould Cozzens, The Just and the Unjust
- Edmund Crispin [Robert Bruce Montgomery], The Moving Toyshop
- Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, Re-enter Sir John
- Helen Eustis, The Horizontal Man
- Frances Noyes Hart, The Bellamy Trial
- Hilda Lawrence, Blood Upon the Snow
- Philip MacDonald, The Rasp
- Glen Trevor [James Hilton], Was It Murder?
- Haycraft-Queen: More Titles Back in Print
Posts on Neglected Works
- Beverley Nichols, Murder by Request (1960)
- Charlotte Armstrong, Dream of Fair Woman (1966)
- Charlotte Armstrong, The Chocolate Cobweb (1948)
- Child prodigy: Thriller writer Horace Atkisson Wade
- F. Tennyson Jesse, Murder and Its Motives (1924)
- Huan Mee, A Diplomatic Woman (1900)
- Josephine Bell, Murder in Hospital (1937)
- Michael Gilbert (ed.), Crime in Good Company (1959)
- Nellie Bly, The Mystery of Central Park (1889)
- Peter Malloch, Murder of the Man Next Door (1966).
- Richard Hull, Keep It Quiet (1935)
- Richard Marsh, Judith Lee (1912-16)
- Richard Marsh, Philip Bennion's Death (1897)
- Russell Thorndike, Doctor Syn (1915)
- Vera Caspary, The Secrets of Grown-ups (1979)
- Westminster Detective Library
- Zelda Popkin, Death Wears a White Gardenia (1938)
- Zelda Popkin, Murder in the Mist (1940)
Mystery Small Presses
Links
- Clues: A Journal of Detection
- Mystery Readers Journal
- Mystery Scene magazine
- Archive for my radio show "It's a Mystery"
- BGSU Browne Popular Culture Library
- Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine
- Crime Fiction Canada
- Crime Lab Project
- Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection, Stanford
- Dime Novel Collection, Syracuse U
- Ed Gorman
- George Kelley Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection, SUNY-Buffalo
- Martin Edwards
- Murder by the Blog
- My DJ brother Jim Foxwell on PA's WBCB (5:30-10 AM ET, M-F)
- Mystery course syllabi
- Neglected Books
- PhiloBiblos
- Series Books for Girls
- The Rap Sheet
- UT Austin Harry Ransom Ctr
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