dust jacket by Arthur Hawkins, Jr. (1903-1985) John Rhode's The Hanging Woman (1931) begins with a coroner's investigation int...

Some more artwork by Arthur Hawkins, Jr. (1903-1985), in the 1930s surely one of the mystery genre's finest book jacket artists.  I lov...

One answer (there are others, like that they both wrote mystery fiction; on Faulkner's efforts see below) is the artwork of  Arthur Hawk...

From about three on, that was the lees of the night.  That was the time to watch out for. That was the time when the laughter died down, lig...

As discussed at length here in my series on Lucy Worsley 's 2013 book A Very British Murder  (coming to America this fall as The Art ...

Here's another interesting bit from Julian Symons ' Bloody Murder : Successful comic crime stories, short or long, are rare.  O...

my actual copy, purchased about fifteen years ago The English writer and critic Julian Symons (1912-1994) produced a distinguished bo...