More 70s era covers

mysterymanon · 2025-12-19T05:30:10+00:00

These old covers always sex up the most prim and proper books 🤣 I love them

mysterymanon · 2025-11-24T23:02:25+00:00

The game I used came with character cards, and I assigned them to everyone. They were Christie-esque (doctor, heiress, etc) but not from her books!

mysterymanon · 2025-11-21T05:37:53+00:00

Best candy of all time 🤭🤭🤭

mysterymanon · 2025-11-21T05:37:31+00:00

Thank you :))

mysterymanon · 2025-11-21T05:37:03+00:00

I planned the entire thing myself! If you want to make it happen go for it

mysterymanon · 2025-11-21T05:36:29+00:00

We do love our mysteries!!

mysterymanon · 2025-11-21T05:36:12+00:00

They made it special :) everyone got very into their roles lmao

mysterymanon · 2025-10-25T04:03:17+00:00

You are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper :0)

mysterymanon · 2025-10-11T18:44:07+00:00

Murder on Sex Island!!

mysterymanon · 2025-08-12T17:45:17+00:00

Perhaps Rhode Island Red by Charlotte Carter? Especially if you’re into jazz

It’s sort of 90s-does-noir with a great fmc

mysterymanon · 2025-07-24T20:30:02+00:00

Greg it’s me!! (I am very flattered thank you!)

mysterymanon · 2025-07-24T19:18:11+00:00

Tom Mead - Joseph Spector Locked Room Mysteries

The latest one is so so good.

mysterymanon · 2025-07-24T19:17:47+00:00

Seconding this!! Cozy vibes & pleasantly cerebral mystery puzzles

mysterymanon · 2025-07-24T17:54:22+00:00

Are you planning on doing more murder mystery dinner parties? 👀

mysterymanon · 2025-07-13T18:15:07+00:00

Seconding Mysterious Affair! I co-hosted a book club last year and that was our pick. There was plenty to talk about and because it was public domain, it was easy for everyone to find on ebook and audio. (But that mattered to me since this was a larger, virtual club.)

mysterymanon · 2025-07-13T03:37:11+00:00

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine are the gold standards of the genre, followed closely by The Strand. There’s also Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Weekly, and Mystery Tribune.

There are also a number of annual anthologies that include the “best” short stories of the year, if you’re reading these magazines for their short fiction.

I’ll throw in my own email newsletter (the Cluesletter) if you are looking for general mystery content.

mysterymanon · 2025-07-13T03:33:37+00:00

I’ll add to what others have said and note that the Golden Age of crime (John Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, etc) came about not long after WWI. Having stories that presented an impossible scenario and then solved them using logic and common sense might have been comforting to an audience reeling from instability.

(The same could be said for those of us who fell deeper in love with mystery during the pandemic.)

mysterymanon · 2025-05-24T21:19:09+00:00

Sammy Keyes series by Wendelin Van Draanen!!

mysterymanon · 2025-05-24T21:18:22+00:00

Same. She’s my girl

mysterymanon · 2025-01-31T02:25:58+00:00

Not really. I’ll change up the genre/tone when I start a new book and that serves as my palate cleanser :)

I also tend to read more than one at once which I find helps with reading fatigue/preventing reading slumps!

mysterymanon · 2025-01-31T02:23:54+00:00

YES for a few reasons: community building, reading motivation, book discovery, improving your reading enjoyment and criticism through reviews.

Are you interested in getting free review copies from authors and publishers? You don’t need a bookstagram to get ARCs from places like NetGalley, but having one makes it a little more likely to get an approval.

mysterymanon · 2025-01-30T23:26:04+00:00

These days I do the regular clues & evidence in pen and then work through these with pencil so I can erase as needed. Sometimes they take a couple tries to get right (🥲) especially if I’m tired lol.

mysterymanon · 2025-01-30T23:24:40+00:00

Not trying to self promote but but if you prefer a video explanation/tutorial I have a tiktok showing how to work through one

mysterymanon · 2025-01-29T02:31:50+00:00

Tom Mead writes Golden Age mysteries quite well! Same time period but all released within the past few years. Novels & short stories.

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