The Spiritualist (also titled, for some mysterious reason, The Amazing Mr. X ), is one of those forties B mystery-thriller genre flicks tha...

Men had placed stone upon stone, rafters upon walls, a roof upon rafters.  Their hands had worked with cunning while their minds were plotti...

One of the great twentieth century public intellectuals, the historian and literary critic Jacques Barzun , died yesterday, at the age of 10...

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) is best known as an author of Golden Age supernatural horror fiction, though in fact he is somewhat diffic...

" No, no, not  that !  People didn't do things like that.  Not ordinary people--and not in England....Only she was not in England. ...

Absent in the Spring is the third of Agatha Christie 's "mainstream" novels written under her Mary Westmacott pseudonym.  I ...

Clifford Reynolds Knight (1886-1963) authored twenty-four crime novels between 1937 and 1952, beginning with the Dodd, Mead Red Badge prize ...