It's our penultimate visit to the Perry Mason Menagerie, although this time the animals are metaphorical! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/11/17/m...

My honkaku journey continues with Kosuke Kindaichi in a pair of shorts, and it only adds to my confusion! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/11/12/m...

The wait is over! The time is NOW!! Sergio, Nick and Brad draft the Top 13 Films Noirs of 1955!!! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/11/10/i...

In which Brad talks Hitchcock with the amazing @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social ahsweetmystery.com/2025/11/06/b...

What a pleasure to talk Hitchcock with Sergio!

Sergio Angelini invited me to chat with him about Hitchcock’s 1940 noirs . . . Part two!!

Here are the final three films under consideration for our upcoming draft of the top 13 films noirs of 1955. The draft is next week!! where will YOU be this Noirvember??https://ahsweetmystery.com/2025/10/30/noirvember-55-part-12/

More Celia Fremlin, and a gently spooky collection of stories perfect for the Halloween season, yet ironically supplied by my Secret Santa!! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/10/27/t...

For lucky Number 13 of our Poirot Project, wouldn't you know? It's Hallowe'en Party! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/10/21/t...

No mean streets or dark alleys this time: the next three films in our upcoming Noirvember draft take place in a women's prison, the docks of San Francisco, and a lush island. The question: are they any good??? ahsweetmystery.com/2025/10/19/n...

We're in for two months of monkey business at the Perry Mason Menagerie! First stop finds Perry facing down a maddened gorilla! ahsweetmystery.com/2025/10/17/m...

In which Brad hops aboard the Freeman Wills Crofts train for the first time . . . and his journey is delayed. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/10/13/b...

October brings the final batch of films before Sergio, Nick and I draft the Top 13 Films Noirs of 1955. Here are the first three. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/10/09/n...

@janicehallett.bsky.social's latest novel, The Killer Question, is a delight, full of twists and laughs! Plus, it inspired me to create my own Monday pub quiz!! (This one's strictly for mystery fans!) ahsweetmystery.com/2025/10/06/p...

PLAYING THE GAME, PART I: You're the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder, a Solve-It-Yourself Mystery ahsweetmystery.com/2025/10/03/p...

Part historical survey, part ludic analysis, John Curran's The Murder Game is an essential addition to the mystery lover's bookshelf. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/09/29/l...

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...