YMCA entertainer Ruth Charlotte Bush died at age 29 due to poison gas exposure during her #WW1 svc. writing in 1918, “…I wouldn’t have missed these experiences for anything any one could offer me. I know that when all is over I shall be a better, stronger, truer girl” buff.ly/ZNkZut5

Article by U-FL law prof @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social on often forgotten early female US judges—some obtaining their positions yrs before the 19th amendment. Image: suffragist & lawyer Catharine Waugh McCulloch, who was elected in 1907 as a justice of the peace in IL. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I recently visited the Edward Gorey House on Cape Cod and learned that Gorey was a devoted #mystery fan. I blogged on some of the mysteries in his library. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/10/Gore... #AgathaChristie #RossMacdonald #JaneLangton #WilkieCollins #PatriciaWentworth #detectivefiction

Read abstracts for _Clues: A Journal of Detection_ (vol 43, no 2, 2025)—theme issue on #Disability & #DetectiveFiction elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/09/Clue... #AlfredHitchcock #ThomasHarris #MaryElizabethBraddon #TV #CornellWoolrich #Victorian #LouisePenny #TanaFrench #autism #StephenKing

30 Sept 2025 app dline for the #BSI Trust Research Fellowships for #research in the Baker St Irregulars archive (Lilly Library, IU). Open to undergrad & grad students, postdoctoral scholars & indie scholars libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-librar... #SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #detectivefiction

For Ichabod Crane fans—new from @mcfarland.bsky.social . mcfarlandbooks.com/product/slee... #WashingtonIrving #SleepyHollow #Halloween #literature

Over on The Rap Sheet is J Kingston Pierce's extensive interview w/Steve Aldous & Gary Gillies, authors of @mcfarland.bsky.social 's _The Harry O Viewing Companion_, on the beloved PI TV series starring David Janssen & Anthony Zerbe. I acquired the bk

#CFP, " #Transportation & #Mobility in #CrimeFiction" (theme issue of _Clues: A Journal of Detection_, proposal deadline: 1 Mar 2026). call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/... #detectivefiction

"The Bookworm" by Oliver Herford. From _A Phenomenal Fauna_ by Carolyn Wells (1902).

As I love archival goodies, I was thrilled to see this press pass for a young Ernest Tidyman (author-screenwriter of _Shaft_; screenwriter for _The French Connection_). www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/show/archive...

Good news for #JohnBuchan fans (published by @britishlibrary.bsky.social ).

Take a peek at the goodies coming up in the fall25 catalog of @mcfarland.bsky.social . The images below are two titles I acquired mcfarlandbooks.com/flipbooks/ne... #detectivefiction #history #baseball #AgathaChristie

Up, up & away ! Take 40% off #superhero titles of @mcfarland.bsky.social this month w/coupon code SUPER40 (BTW, the Superman title nabbed the coveted Oddest Title of the Yr prize in 2021 from @thebookseller.com ) mcfarlandbooks.com/.../genre/sf...

July $ale at Smashwords! A good time to pick up my bks at 25% off: • _In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I_ (anthology of first-person accounts by US women who served in #WWI) • _No Man's Land & Other Stories_ (mostly historical #mysteries) www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

Toledo Public Library has posted videos from the Apr25 #NancyDrew 95th Anniv Conv: Jennifer Fisher, ND Sleuths founder, discusses "95 Years of ND" & collecting ND; Stacia Deutsch, who has written under the ND pseudonym Carolyn Keene; Erika Head on using ND in the classrm buff.ly/QWVjDwC

From _The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten_ (1906). Written and illustrated by Oliver Herford. #Caturday

My latest Jury Box column is posted at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, w/reviews of short story collections & classic reprints by Ethel Lina White, Sara Woods, the intriguing Madelon St. Denis, Miles Burton, Dorothy Cameron Disney & 19C mystery pioneer Mary Fortune buff.ly/jnG3vuX #detectivefiction

Vera Brittain's vivid portrait in _Testament of Youth_ of Dorothy L. Sayers at Somerville College is well known, but I was delighted to see a 1915 photo from the Somerville College Library w/Sayers (standing, at far left) & Brittain (standing, at far right)

Coming up: Online lectures on Conan Doyle hosted by the Portsmouth [UK] Library & Archives: 11 Jun: C Goldfarb, "If Arthur Conan Doyle Met #CharlesDickens " 25 Jun: J Cranfield, "Conan Doyle: Marriage & Divorce" 3 Jul: S Goldfarb, "Conan Doyle: Misquoter" ihearofsherlock.substack.com/p/worldwide-...

$ave 25% on McFarland & Co's #military #history bks thru Father's Day. Use coupon code MILITARY25 mcfarlandbooks.com/shop/military/ #CivilWar #WW2 #WW1 #Vietnam #Korea #Afghanistan #Iraq #aviation #Navy #Marines

Malden, MA, unveils a new mural by Fred Seager honoring the Perry Mason #mysteries of native son Erle Stanley Gardner. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/05/Gard...

"#Cat in an affectionate frame of mind." By T.W. Wood. From Charles Darwin, _On the Expression of the Emotions_. John Murray, 1872. Wellcome Collection. buff.ly/HaU4TQz #Caturday

Drooling... drooling. #detectivefiction #NancyDrew @ddjames59.bsky.social

@catsofyore.bsky.social Could you or some of yr followers explain to me why my #cat likes to perch on (or in) my shoes? It mystifies me. 🐈 #TortieTude

@janburke.bsky.social Maybe there's a branch near you? 🐕

Caldera to issue this month John Cameron's score to _The Mirror Crack'd_ (dir. Guy Hamilton, 1980, based on the #AgathaChristie novel, & featuring Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple). For more info & to listen to clips: buff.ly/tndSXjl #filmmusic #detectivefiction

"[B]ookselling is a marrying of minds,not only thru the ideas & emotions that bks convey to readers & sellers, but among all those literate people who make, sell & buy bks. In an unhappy world, they may well be the happiest fraternity remaining to us"-John Tebbel, "A Brief History of Amer Bkselling"

Congrats to Nathan Ashman, Best Critical/Biographical Edgar winner, for his bk _James Sallis: A Companion to the #Mystery Fiction_ (I edit the series @mcfarland.bsky.social ). Nathan is a lecturer in crime writing @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social . Sallis wrote _Drive_ mcfarlandbooks.com/product/jame...

Read Clues 43.1 (2025) abstracts elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/04/clue... #AgathaChristie #noir #PeterHoeg #femmefatale #HerculePoirot #LenDeighton #detectivefiction #spyfiction #DashiellHammett #Ukraine #ageism #Gaslight #PatrickHamilton #multilingual #Nordicnoir #crimefiction #hardboiled

Congrats to @mcfarland.bsky.social 's Phyllis M. Betz, recipient of this year's Agatha Award for Best #Nonfiction, for her edited bk _Writing the #Cozy #Mystery : Authors' Perspectives on Their Craft_. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/writ... #detectivefiction #books

Frederic Hill at last night's packed event at Enoch Pratt Library. The former Baltimore Sun reporter discussed the subj of his @mcfarland.bsky.social bk, Sen Charles "Mac" Mathias (R-MD), a champion of bipartisan #foreignpolicy & #civilrights mcfarlandbooks.com/product/math... #books #politics

@ddjames59.bsky.social FYI...

Former _Baltimore Sun_ reporter Frederic Hill talks w/Tom Hall of WYPR's _Midday_ about his bk subject, the late Sen Charles "Mac" Mathias (R-MD), on 29 Apr at 7P at Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library, In-person & virtual options avbl. Bk pub @mcfarland.bsky.social #politics #bipartisan #policy #books

On The Magic Book podcast, Rebecca Josephy (Oakland U) talks about the new collection she edited, _Magic, Magicians & #DetectiveFiction _ (@mcfarland.bsky.social ), on the use of #magic & #magicians in #mysteries , incl discussion of impossible #crimes & #supernatural elements

Missed Marion Elliott Deerhake's Capitol Hill presentation on Jane Pratt, NC's 1st congresswoman? You now can see it on YouTube.The anti-flooding advocacy of Rep. Pratt saved lives during Hurricane Helene. Deerhake's bio of Pratt is published @mcfarland.bsky.social

Listen to 2025 Dove Awardee David Geherin read from his Edgar-nominated bk _Organized #Crime on Page and Screen: Portrayals in Hit Novels, Films, and Television Shows _, published @mcfarland.bsky.social buff.ly/2EccNLT 💙📚 #films #TV

In this "In Focus" pgrm on NC's female reps for Spectrum News, Marion Elliott Deerhake talks about Jane Pratt, NC's 1st congresswoman whose anti-flooding advocacy saved lives during Hurricane Helene. Deerhake's new bk @mcfarland.bsky.social focuses on Pratt buff.ly/TkO7RPI #WomensHistoryMonth

Sneak peek at cover for Clues 43.1 (2025). #AgathaChristie #detectivefiction #PeterHoeg #DashiellHammett #age #Ukraine #ageism #multicultural #PatrickHamilton #LenDeighton #espionage #femmefatale #noir #crimefiction

FYI, @peteorford.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/nunk...

Frm Girl Scout to Apollo 11: Eugenia Clement was a messenger for Surgeon Gen William Gorgas in #WW1, the 1st woman to take a course in U-MD's College of Engr & was part of U-MD’s winning rifle team. She wked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, at Goddard Space Flight Ctr & on Apollo 11 buff.ly/AV0rBPf #WHM

This #CFP for the VPFJ issue “Poison(s) and #Poisoning in 19C Popular Fiction" of course incl #poison in #detectivefiction. Proposal deadline: 30 Apr 2025 buff.ly/h0hC9nA #Victorian

. @jcbernthal.com talks about why #Christie remains so popular @mcfarland.bsky.social 's podcast Best Part of the Bk ($ave 25% on his #AgathaChristie: A Companion to the #Mystery Fiction w/coupon code BESTPART on McF website). I edit the series. buff.ly/8uhh2D2 #detectivefiction #books

Attn, David Janssen/#detective #TV fans: new frm @mcfarland.bsky.social —The #HarryO Viewing Companion. Incl remarks from co-stars Anthony Zerbe (who won an Emmy for his performance in the series) & Les Lannom & behind-the-scenes photos provided by Mr Zerbe buff.ly/fOsWdrY #nonfiction

"Current Conversations in 19C #Children's #Literature " / #Victorian #Interdisciplinary Studies Assn of the Western US /panel w/Amanda Chapman, Patrick Fleming, Melissa Shields Jenkins & Colten Biro / 28 March • 9PT/12ET/ www.visawus.org

On @mcfarland.bsky.social 's podcast Best Part of the Bk on 14 Mar, @jcbernthal.com , author of #AgathaChristie: A Companion to the #Mystery Fiction, will discuss Christie's life, work & popularity (I edit the bk series) mcfarlandbooks.com/our-story/be... #detectivefiction #nonfiction #books

"Victorian Façades, Facets & Fantasies. A Zoom Conf." 5th Annual #Undergraduate & #Graduate Student #Victorian Assn 2025 conf 1 May 2025 (abstracts due 11 Apr 2025). One topic is "police/detectives & #detectivefiction" buff.ly/0Rgk8fV

. @mcfarland.bsky.social author Marion Deerhake (left, w/me) at her US Capitol Hist Soc event on Rep Jane Pratt (D-NC). A staffer for NC Gov Josh Stein said that Rep Pratt's flood control advocacy led to a dam that held during Hurricane Helene mcfarlandbooks.com/product/jane... #WomensHistoryMonth

Take 25% off @mcfarland.bsky.social 's #womenshistory titles during #WomensHistoryMonth ; use coupon code WHM2025. mcfarlandbooks.com/shop/interdi... #doctors #royalty #Skystorians #Nonfiction #WHM #healthcare #nursing #biography