In honor of EQMM's 85th anniv, I write on its blog about unexpected authors whose wk has appeared in the magazine (like that of Pearl S. Buck & H.G. Wells) somethingisgoingtohappen.net/2026/09/11/b...
Elizabeth Foxwell
@elizfoxwell.bsky.social
Editor at McFarland & Co. | Managing Editor, Clues: A Journal of Detection | Editor, McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction | Also writes on #WW1 women | elizabethfoxwell.com | https://americanwomeninwwi.wordpress.com/
The Aug 4 "Israel Zangwill at 100" free online symposium will incl a paper in the 12:10-12:50 ET slot, "Humour in Zangwill’s 'The Big Bow Mystery,'" by Aparna Prakashbabu Uma (U-Leeds). Zangwill's 1892 novel is an important locked-rm #mystery . Link to register: uri-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Clips from "The Case of the Late Pig" (1968, based on the novel by Margery Allingham) from the _Detective_ TV series
archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 2mo agoDetective - The Case of the Late Pig (28th July 1968). Brian Smith and George Sewell featured as Campion and Lugg in Frank Moore's adaptation of the novel by Margery Allingham.
Nook & Google Play ebook versions of _Clues: A Journal of Detection_ (vol. 44, no. 1, 2026) are now avbl. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2026/04/clue... #PDJames #LouisePenny #ClaytonRawson #detectivefiction #TanaFrench #NancyDrew #LGBTQ+ #crimefiction #ChuckPalahniuk #Indiancrimefiction #magicians
Clues 44.1: Indian crime fiction, French, Haycraft, James, Nancy Drew, Palahniuk, Penny, Rawson, and more.
A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.
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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
"He was just being American": clip frm Ngaio Marsh's _Death in Ecstasy_ (_Detective_ TV series) w/Geoffrey Keen as Alleyn bsky.app/profile/arch... @archivetvmusings.bsky.social
archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 3mo agoDetective - Death in Ecstasy (8th June 1964). Adapted from the novel by Ngaio Marsh, Geoffrey Keen stars as DCI Alleyn, with Keith Barron, Roger Delgado, Joss Ackland and Brian Cant amongst the supporting cast.
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
@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...
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
Dec 15/4:30P ET: Zoom w/@nicholasbirns.bsky.social & Margaret Boe Birns (NYU) re their new _#AgathaChristie Under the Magnifying Glass: Close Readings of 12 Novels_. Spec guest @jcbernthal.com (_Agatha Christie: A Companion to the #Mystery Fiction_) elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/12/Birn...
December 15 Zoom event on the work of Agatha Christie.
A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.
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The @mcfarland.bsky.social holiday $ale is on—take 35% off w/coupon code HOLIDAY25 till Dec 1 (drops to 25% off after this date). Intriguing new bk: American Magdalene, in which Brenda S Tolian unmasks the author behind a 1919 acct of a sex wker in the US & Canada mcfarlandbooks.com/product/amer...
American Magdalene - McFarland
American Magdalene The Life Behind the Scandalous Book Madeleine: An Autobiography Brenda S. Tolian 978-1-4766-9801-4 978-1-4766-5792-9
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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....
I recently visited the Edward Gorey House on Cape Cod and learned that Gorey was a devoted #mystery fan. I blogged on some of the mysteries in his library. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/10/Gore... #AgathaChristie #RossMacdonald #JaneLangton #WilkieCollins #PatriciaWentworth #detectivefiction
Edward Gorey, mystery fan.
A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.
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Read abstracts for _Clues: A Journal of Detection_ (vol 43, no 2, 2025)—theme issue on #Disability & #DetectiveFiction elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/09/Clue... #AlfredHitchcock #ThomasHarris #MaryElizabethBraddon #TV #CornellWoolrich #Victorian #LouisePenny #TanaFrench #autism #StephenKing
30 Sept 2025 app dline for the #BSI Trust Research Fellowships for #research in the Baker St Irregulars archive (Lilly Library, IU). Open to undergrad & grad students, postdoctoral scholars & indie scholars libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-librar... #SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #detectivefiction
Over on The Rap Sheet is J Kingston Pierce's extensive interview w/Steve Aldous & Gary Gillies, authors of @mcfarland.bsky.social 's _The Harry O Viewing Companion_, on the beloved PI TV series starring David Janssen & Anthony Zerbe. I acquired the bk
The Rap Sheet@therapsheet2006.bsky.social · last yr.The Rap Sheet's J. Kingston Pierce talks with Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies about their excellent and comprehensive work, "The Harry O Viewing Companion."
#CFP, " #Transportation & #Mobility in #CrimeFiction" (theme issue of _Clues: A Journal of Detection_, proposal deadline: 1 Mar 2026). call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/... #detectivefiction
"The Bookworm" by Oliver Herford. From _A Phenomenal Fauna_ by Carolyn Wells (1902).
As I love archival goodies, I was thrilled to see this press pass for a young Ernest Tidyman (author-screenwriter of _Shaft_; screenwriter for _The French Connection_). www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/show/archive...
From Cleveland Dropout to Award Winning Screenwriter #506: Ernest Tidyman Papers
Ernest Tidyman was one of the top Hollywood screenwriters in the early 1970s. He won an Oscar for The French Connection and an NAACP Image Award for Shaft.
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Take a peek at the goodies coming up in the fall25 catalog of @mcfarland.bsky.social . The images below are two titles I acquired mcfarlandbooks.com/flipbooks/ne... #detectivefiction #history #baseball #AgathaChristie
Up, up & away ! Take 40% off #superhero titles of @mcfarland.bsky.social this month w/coupon code SUPER40 (BTW, the Superman title nabbed the coveted Oddest Title of the Yr prize in 2021 from @thebookseller.com ) mcfarlandbooks.com/.../genre/sf...
