The Mystillery blog

  About the author:  Anna Katharine Green  (1846 – 1935) was an American  poet  and  novelist . She was one of the first writers of  detecti...

About the author:   Sue Taylor Grafton  (1940 – 2017) is best known as the author of the 25 "alphabet series" ( "A" Is f...

  About the author:  (from  gadetection):  Audrey Vera Kelsey (1892-1961) was a Canadian journalist and foreign correspondent. She was born ...

  About the author:   Mignon Good (1899-1996) was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1929 her first crime novel was published featuring 'Sara...

  P. F. Collier & Son Corporation certainly had a soft spot for mystery reprints, churning out a pile of them between 1928 and 1947 in a...

  AbeBooks About the author:   Robert Alfred John Walling  (1869 -  1949 ) was an English journalist and author of  detective novels . His c...

One of my favorite mystery tropes is the "well-oiled hinge", and it's close relative, the "well-oiled lock" which ap...