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Originally Posted by Critteranne
I haven't read any of those mysteries where Doyle or Jane Austen or the Brontë sisters or Emily Dickinson (!) solve mysteries. I've been sort of tempted (semi-tempted?) with a couple. But just sort of...
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Well hey, you can start with The List of 7. I really did like it.
Another one I picked up but haven't yet read is
The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont.
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Return to 1937, when America is turning to the pulps for relief from the Depression, and meet Walter Gibson, the mind behind The Shadow, and his rival for the top-selling spot on the nation's newsstands, Lester Dent, creator of Doc Savage. The murder of Gibson's friend H. P. Lovecraft -- victim of a mysterious death that literally makes the skin crawl -- is about to bring these two writers face to face with a peril sprung from the pulps.
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And lastly, I also picked up
A Twist at the End: A Novel of O. Henry and the Texas Servant Girl Murders of 1885 by Steven Saylor. I'm giving thise one a pass because the case is a true one and O. Henry really did live in Austin at the time.
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The city of Austin, Texas, “is fearfully dull,” wrote young Will Porter to a friend in the spring of 1885, “except for the frequent raids of the Servant Girl Annihilators, who make things lively in the dead of night.”
Years later, Will Porter would become the most famous writer in America— O. Henry, the toast of New York. The long-ago Austin servant girl murders would remain unsolved. But behind the O. Henry pen name, Will Porter was a man with secrets. The appearance of a merciless blackmailer and a mysterious stranger draw Porter back into the past, and back to Texas, to confront the twisted solution to those murders—and the secrets of his own soul.
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