Elizabeth Foxwell
@elizfoxwell
Editor at McFarland & Co. | Managing Editor, Clues: A Journal of Detection | Editor, McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction | Also writes on #WW1 women | elizabethfoxwell.com
Funniest blurb of all time (on the back of Elizabeth Peters' _Night Train to Memphis_)
In _Ngaio Marsh: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction_, Mr. Neill was quoted as saying Ngaio Marsh terrified him. :-) Marsh, in addition to being a writer & director, was a talented artist. See Olivia Spencer Bower, "Ngaio Marsh Painting" christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/9...
• Joseph Hansen: _Fadeout_, etc. (ground-breaking gay PI) • Ellen Hart: Jane Lawless series
_High Sierra_, by W.R. Burnett; _Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye_, by Horace McCoy
Joanne Dobson's Karen Pelletier mysteries, which have literary themes (the 1st one, _Quieter than Sleep_, is centered on Emily Dickinson). Emily Brightwell's Mrs. Jeffries series is light & fun (Mrs. Jeffries is the housekeeper of a Scotland Yard inspector; servants as sleuths; it's Victorian-set).
On Another Shirt Ruined (podcast on #AmeliaPeabody & friends), IU Lilly Library archivist Ava Dickerson talks about wking w/the papers of author Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels/Barbara Mertz www.iheart.com/podcast/1333... #detectivefiction #Egyptology #archaeology
My new Jury Box column w/reviews of mystery short story collections & classic reprints is now posted at _Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine_, featuring wks that focus on the impossible crime (Barker, Brand, Chadwick, Collins, Fremlin, Lovesey, Stribling). elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/curr.../the-...
The Torists Intl will be hosting the conf "And It Is Always 1895" in honor of the 140th bday of writer, journalist, critic, collector & noted #Sherlockian Vincent Starrett (1886–1974) on 23–25 Oct 2026 in Bensenville, IL (near O'Hare Airport) www.anditisalways1895.org/home
Through Father's Day (June 21), take 25% off #military #history bks at @mcfarland.bsky.social w/coupon code MEMORIAL26. mcfarlandbooks.com/shop/military/ #WW1 #WW2 #submarines #Vietnam #Korea #Iran #CivilWar #RevolutionaryWar #Holocaust
I'd say Barbara Reynolds's _DLS: Her Life & Soul_ (www.hodder.co.uk/titles/barba...); she also edited several vols of Sayers's ltrs. I'm also really fond of the collected bk reviews of DLS (avbl thru the Sayers Soc, www1.sayers.org.uk/publications...)
As you like gardening, you might enjoy the Grub & Stakers series by Alisa Craig (pseudonym of Charlotte MacLeod). mysteriouspress.com/products/coz...
@mcfarland.bsky.social 's George Boziwick nabbed the Ray & Pat Browne Awd for Best Edited Reference/Primary Source Wk in Popular & American Culture from @pcaaca.bsky.social for his bk _The Music of #Baseball: A History & Catalog of Selected Wks_ mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
Visual Haggard is a website featuring illustrations from the works of H. Rider Haggard www.visualhaggard.org #Victorian #Egypt #literature
The #Victorian #Jewish Writers Project is organizing a virtual roundtable on Israel Zangwill for Aug 2026 and would like to receive expressions of interest re participation by 5 June. There may be those in the #mystery community who wish to discuss his _Big Bow Mystery_ (1892).
Best Part of the Bk podcast on _Clues: A Journal of Detection_ w/exec editor Caroline Reitz & me, incl discussion of the Clues issue on #disability & #detectivefiction. Those who wish to subscribe to Clues can get 25% off w/coupon code BESTPART mcfarlandbooks.com/connect/best...
Heyer also wrote mysteries (in conjunction w/her husband). This is one of my favorites. www.sourcebooks.com/978149266955...
And still more on Gillian Flynn. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2020/04/clue...
Well, here's the domestic #noir issue of Clues (39.1, 2021). elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2021/03/Clue...
Author James Sallis died on Jan 27 at age 81. Although he might be best known for _Drive_, he had a long & distinguished career, incl. this well-respected biography of Chester Himes elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2026/02/Sall... #BlackHistoryMonth
FYI, Jennifer Morag Henderson's bio of Tey. Henderson was successful in having a blue heritage plaque placed on the business of Tey's family in Inverness.
My favorite 1920s-set mystery series is by K.K. Beck: _Death in a Deck Chair_, _Murder in a Mummy Case, & _Peril Under the Palms_. @deanstpress.bsky.social has reprinted early mystery novels by Patricia Wentworth www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/pages/author...
Dan Stashower highlighted Eliot Ness & the Untouchables game as "the worst board game ever created" 🙂
YMCA entertainer Ruth Charlotte Bush died at age 29 due to poison gas exposure during her #WW1 svc. writing in 1918, “…I wouldn’t have missed these experiences for anything any one could offer me. I know that when all is over I shall be a better, stronger, truer girl” buff.ly/ZNkZut5
Article by U-FL law prof @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social on often forgotten early female US judges—some obtaining their positions yrs before the 19th amendment. Image: suffragist & lawyer Catharine Waugh McCulloch, who was elected in 1907 as a justice of the peace in IL. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Harriet Prescott Spofford image below. For those who would like to read her #mystery stories: -- "In a Cellar": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/510 -- "Mr. Furbush": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/407 -- "In the Maguerriwock": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/521
I reviewed for EQMM 2 bks (orig publ in 1930s magazines) by Madelon St. Denis w/an early female PI: _The Hollow Tree Mystery_ & _The Jekyll-Hyde Murder Case_ www.coachwhipbooks.com/mystery-auth...