Mystery reading group guides.

For those looking for mystery reading group guides:

• The New York Review of Books has guides for William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley, Jean-Patrick Manchette's Fatale, and Georges Simenon's The Engagement.

• Michigan Center for the Book has a Reading Guide to Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder.

 

Nightmare Alley reissued by NYRB Classics.

As The Rap Sheet previously noted, William Lindsay Gresham's noir classic Nightmare Alley (1946) was reissued earlier this month by New York Review of Books Classics. NYRB also has a reading group guide for the book here.

(About the image: Tyrone Power in Nightmare Alley, 1947, dir. Edmund Goulding)