Don't just take my word for it: Thriller expert Stephen King called Kate Atkinson’s 2004 novel “the best mystery of the decade.” This crime story, which is often cited as the book that put ...

To my mind, the best examples often involve a criminal acting in a manner that seems to defy reason—for instance, going out of their way to arrange a decidedly unorthodox crime scene, as in ...

Mystery Story When Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a piece last week under the title "The Great Mystery," she had not returned to her old trade as a topnotch writer of mystery stories (Gaudy ...

Mystery Story, long out of print, is Pirie’s first novel. It says so on the flyleaf. I’ve lost count of the number of people I’ve lent my copy to.