Without abandoning her obsession with detail, Dorothy L. Sayers follows the borderline unreadable “Five Red Herrings” with one of her elite novels, “Have His Carcase”
Dorothy L. Sayers inadvertently raises the question of how much detail is too much in “The Five Red Herrings” (1931), her sixth Lord Peter Wimsey
The cover of “Keeper of Enchanted Rooms” (2022) features a soft, inviting drawing of the house where the magical events take place, and the book
The Raymond Chandler collection “The Simple Art of Murder” (1950) starts with his erudite titular essay from 1944. One of the most famous analyses ever
Seven novels showed Philip Marlowe as a serial bachelor who resists marriage like it’s the plague, so at first blush, that should have us scratching
Hollywood’s loss becomes literature’s gain with “Playback” (1958), the last novel fully written by Raymond Chandler, who died in 1959. It seems odd for someone
Raymond Chandler makes what seems like a conscious reaction to “The Little Sister” (1949) – where everyone is mean and/or manipulative – in “The Long
Mark Z. Danielewski’s “House of Leaves” (2000) is a weird novel, but it’s not so weird you can’t enjoy a smooth reading experience (you just
Raymond Chandler returns from a six-year break between Philip Marlowe novels with his best-so-far analysis of how people aren’t always what they seem to be.
Editor Vince Emery provides an archeological service as well as a literary one with “Lost Stories” (2005). He started by tracking down every under-published story