The Case of the Crimson Kiss is the bonus novelette on our Perry Mason Girls! Girls! Girls! tour - something different from the usual and maybe the best of the four shorter works starring the ace defense attorney! ahsweetmystery.com/2026/05/29/b...
Is Rear Window the greatest of Hitchcock's thrillers? Brad Friedman @ahsweetmystery.bsky.social is absolutely certain that it is. We look at its literary origins, development and exhibition history.
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From the scene shop in her mind, Agatha Christie carefully selected the furniture and props to create some of the most theatrical crime scenes ever! ahsweetmystery.com/2026/06/12/a...
The wait is over! Here are the result from Sergio @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social, Nick Cardillo, and my draft of the TWENTY GREATEST SCREEN SLEUTHS OF ALL TIME! ahsweetmystery.com/2026/06/10/t...
We’re nearly halfway through our celebration into the Girls! Girls! Girls! of Perry Mason. The truth is that I selected a dozen novels that, title-wise, fit the thematic bill, but the titular ladie…
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What a pleasure it was to discuss my favorite Hitchcock film with Sergio Angelini @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social on his fabulous podcast. ahsweetmystery.com/2026/05/31/m...
James Scott Byrnside has struck again! His new story collection features three impossible murders, a nightmare finale at a carnival and, in the third story, the most lovable character to ever appear in crime fiction!
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Another time loop/murder mystery hybrid - and a sense that I've been through all of this before! ahsweetmystery.com/2026/06/03/d...
Happy June! With summertime just around the corner, it's time to rank Agatha Christie's best (or is it worst?) bad boys! ahsweetmystery.com/2026/06/01/t...
When there's no Poirot, no Nero Wolfe, no series character of any kind, what do you do? You stand alone. Here are ten of my favorite stand-alone mysteries! ahsweetmystery.com/2026/05/18/b...
With A Deadly Episode, Anthony Horowitz proves once again that murder and meta-fiction go together like Holmes and Watson! ahsweetmystery.com/2026/06/08/a...
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At the midpoint of 4:50 from Paddington, Lucy Eyelesbarrow enters the Long Barn at Rutherford Hall for the first time. She is looking for a body. This is what she finds: “At a first glance, Lu…
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One of the many things that the Three Amigos – Nick, Sergio and Brad – have in common is that, as much as we love to read mysteries, we adore watching them every bit as much! That’s why we talk abo…
What is the most existential birthday present you’ve ever received? I hope that question doesn’t seem too foreboding! It’s not my aim to inspire dread in any of my readers who are about t…
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I recently did some research on the concept of déjà vu – not for the first time, I feel almost certain – and I learned that this feeling that we are experiencing something that happened t…
If you are a true “Ah Sweet Mysterian” (yes, we’ve got our own cult name!), then you know that Rear Window is my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie and maybe my favorite film of all …
Happy June, everyone! Happy harbinger of summer! Happy Pride Month! It’s time to trade slacks for shorts (please ignore my pasty legs) and fire up those grills (unless the CC&R’s of your condo …
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Every once in a while, my Book Club eschews the single Title-of-the-Month format and opts for a more general discussion. We select a topic – say, our favorite mysteries of the 1920’s or the best de…
It is always a pleasure to return to the work of Anthony Horowitz, an author who never met a meta-fiction he didn’t like. First, he gave us a trilogy about an editor who had to solve the mysteries …
