Melisende's Library

Synopsis: Osaka, 1943: as the Second World War rages and American bombers rain death down upon the city, the once prosperous Omari family i...

Synopsis: Helen Capel is hired as a live-in lady-help to the Warren family in the countryside. She enjoys the eccentric household and her d...

Synopsis: Early one morning, the owner of a local mill is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station. Suspicion in...

Synopsis: Six down-on-their-luck people with links to the world of crime writing have been invited to play a game this Christmas by the mys...

Synopsis: The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore, A. A. Milne was also the au...

Synopsis: First published as The Wheel Spins in 1936 and adapted for the screen by Alfred Hitchcock in 1938, Ethel Lina White’s The Lady V...

Synopsis: For devotees of the Golden Age mystery, the impossible crime story represents the period’s purest form: it presents the reader wi...

Synopsis: A U.S. Senator is found brutally murdered with a machete on the grounds of an exclusive golf club on one of the British Seaward I...

Synopsis: Trehune, a gluttonous rare book dealer, attempts to overcome his deafness by acupuncture treatment. While witnessing a demonstrati...

Miss Maud Silver is a fictional main character in series mystery novels written by bestselling British author Patricia Wentworth. Miss Silve...

Synopsis: Vintage Crimes will be a CWA anthology with a difference, celebrating members' work over the years. The book will gather st...

Curtis Evens for CrimeReads :  Across the transatlantic world in the early decades of the twentieth century a terrible wave of poison at...

So another book sale just happened to be on this weekend, so I did a drive by and stopped in. Managed to pick up these offerings: ...

The next in the DCI Wilfred Dover series - and just as good as the first. Once again, Dover is sent out into the sticks to solve a s...

From  Fine Books & Collections :  Three titles will launch the Library of Congress Crime Classics Series in spring 2020. Cover desig...

From  CrimeReads :  Martin Edwards celebrates a new era of Golden Age mysteries, and takes us through the challenges of bringing beloved...

Synopsis: All of the twelve detective stories in this volume are puzzled over by Orczy’s mysterious armchair detective, the “Old Man In The...

"In the past twenty four hours he had stumbled into the very midst of something which baffled him completely.  In that brief interval ...

The King Of The Crime Writers: The Biography of John Creasey by Nigel Cawthorne John Creasy was not quite as famous as Agatha Christie...

Look, I personally love classic crime - and Maigret (recently brought to life by Rowan Atkinson), definitely falls into this category.   ...