With inexorable dread, we're inching ever closer to our Noirvember '55 draft!! Here are three more films for your consideration!! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/09/27/n...

Here are the answers to the Tenth Anniversary Great Big Gigantic Agatha Christie Quiz. You're welcome! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/09/24/t...

The Poirot Project - fifteen titles in fifteen months - and I knew I had to get to this one sooner or later! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/09/21/t...

The Mason Menagerie dips into luxury this month, as Della cries, "Make mine mink!" and Perry wonders what it's all fur! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/09/17/t...

Another first-time read of a brilliant author: Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One is incisive, suspenseful, and very funny. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/09/15/a...

To commemorate my tenth anniversary as a blogger, I present you with a gigantic Christie quiz! How much of an Agath-ologist are you?!? Can you identify thirty of my favorite quotations? ahsweetmystery.com/2025/09/13/t...

The next trio of films under consideration for our Noirvember draft includes a double dose of hokum and a genuine masterpiece! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/09/10/n...

My deep dive into the noir films of 1955 continues as we inch ever closer to our big Noirvember draft. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/09/03/n...

Ten years as a blogger? Me? ahsweetmystery.com/2025/09/01/o...

Two more TV mystery reviews for Saturday - but I have to warn you they're both pretty "meh." ahsweetmystery.com/2025/08/30/s...

Erle Stanley Gardner has emerged as a favorite of mine. Reading ALL his work may be a challenge I don't even want to attempt, but the index I've compiled shows how far I've come . . . and how very far i have to go! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/08/27/t...

For this month's Poirot Project, a sentimental favorite, my birth day book - except, sadly, it's not very good. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/08/21/t...

Three more entries for our upcoming Noirvember '55 draft - including a surefire candidate for Number One!! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/08/19/n...

After stomping on a drowsy mosquito, Perry Mason's brush with a bullet-nicked horse is a bit of a letdown, but it does have a thrilling opening and a terrific TV adaptation. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/08/17/t...

My Book Club is selecting their favorite mysteries of the 1920's. Here are mine . . . (One of them is, er, controversial!) ahsweetmystery.com/2025/08/15/s...

Noirvember is inching ever closer (feel the dread?) and here are three more films being considered for our 1955 draft. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/08/10/n...

Blue Sky was displeased with American Mystery Classics cover art for Charlotte Armstrong's The Unsuspected. I am reposting with, I hope, a more acceptable image. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/08/04/l...

Three more entries for our upcoming Noirvember draft of the top thirteen film noir classics of 1955! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/08/01/n...

My rare sojourn into the modern mystery novel has yielded mixed results. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/07/30/g...

Today I've given myself the Colbert Questionert. It was challenging and fun, and I took it to be known, both as a person and as a grateful fan of Stephen Colbert. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/07/28/b...

I had the pleasure of reading Teresa Peschel's second volume of reviews, this time of over 100 Agatha Christie adaptations from around the world! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/07/26/f...

Enter the rarified world of the department store, with a big sale in progress and a murdered man spotted just behind ladies lingerie! A rare one: Zelda Popkin's Death Wears a White Gardenia! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/07/23/r...

A great setting, a terrific victim . . . and one of the most ludicrous solutions in the Christie canon! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/07/21/t...

This just may be the gold standard of Perry Mason novels. A real closed circle mystery, with Perry, Della and Paul like you've never seen them before! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/07/17/w...

Two terrific films and one slight misfire in our continuing quest to find the best film noir of 1955! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/07/14/n...

I'm back with three more 1955 films that Nick Cardillo, Sergio Angelini and I will be considering for our Film Noir Draft in Noirvember! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/07/10/n...

Anything that promotes Shirley Jackson I'm gonna crow about. (As for Agatha, well - that goes without saying!)

The latest chapter in my adventures into shin honkaku: lots of terrific history, lots of, well, mystery. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/07/07/h...

Ever wonder what the greatest mystery films of all time are? Well, Sergio, Nick and I are just as clueless! But here's what we drafted! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/07/03/t...

The Big Clock begins counting down toward Noirvember '55, a draft of the best films noirs of that very good year! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/07/01/n...

Exciting news: James Scott Byrnside has put out a new story collection of impossible crime tales with all the bafflement, gore and humor we've come to expect! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/06/28/i...

Fifteen titles in fifteen months . . . what more can one say about The Murder of Roger Ackroyd? Well, you know how much I love to talk . . . ahsweetmystery.com/2025/06/21/t...

Can a cat's carelessness cause a crazy killing? It's another fine mess for Perry Mason - and another great read by Erle Stanley Gardner! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/06/17/d...

It's good to see Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pund again . . . but three is not quite the charm. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/06/14/t...

Lots of mystery movie talk coming up on the blog this year. Here's how you can get involved! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/06/13/m...

I had a great time talking about the noir side of genius Alfred Hitchcock with my buddy, noirologist Sergio Angelini, on his excellent podcast Tipping My Fedora!

A wide range of new mysteries have just shown up on various streaming services. Are they worth your time? ahsweetmystery.com/2025/06/05/c...

Maybe novelettes didn't play to Erle Stanley Gardner's strengths. Maybe Perry Mason needs room to stretch his talents. At any rate, "The Case of the Crying Swallow" is for the birds! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/06/02/t...

The Poirot Project: fifteen titles in fifteen months. But just what kind of "Poirot novel" IS The Big Four??? ahsweetmystery.com/2025/05/21/t...

Q. How do you get down off an elephant? A. You don't get down off an elephant - you get down off a duck! (cymbals crash!!) Ohhhh . . . forget the jokes and read more Perry Mason! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/05/17/q...

Why do some of the greatest suspense authors get forgotten? Every Book Club should do what mine just did and tackle Margaret Millar! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/05/12/m...

Welcome back, Charlie Cale! Rian Johnson's series Poker Face is back for a second season of inverted mystery fun! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/05/11/g...

In my mission to find excellent 1920s mysteries, I finally tackled A.A. Milne's single attempt. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/05/03/p...

A couple more Christie adaptations to watch - and a special bon bon for dessert! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/05/02/c...

Once in a while, you pick up a mystery that leaves you open-mouthed as you read it! The Deadly Percheron is one such story! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/04/29/o...

Praise for Charlotte Armstrong: The Chocolate Cobweb is an object lesson in domestic suspense! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/04/24/c...

Steve has good taste in TV shows!

Fifteen titles in fifteen months! This time, Detective Poirot takes flight, but it's "Papa" Poirot who reaches the highest heights. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/04/21/t...

"Polly wants a lawyer!!" A stellar visit to the Perry Mason menagerie with The Case of the Perjured Parrot! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/04/17/i...

Having had a mixed bag of experiences with Honkaku crime novels lately, I was a bit reticent about entering this maze. How successfully did I make it through??? ahsweetmystery.com/2025/04/14/m...