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Mysterious Links
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Crime Fiction Links
Overbooked - Lots of Mystery Links
Mysterious Characters - links to authors and others
Online Mystery Magazines and Newsletters:
Crimetime, Ellery Queen, Deadly Pleaures, Handheld
Crime, Mystery News and many more.
More Mystery Links
Major mystery sites. Alphabetically (more or less) arranged.
Audio Mysteries
Rent audiobooks starting at $7.50. Choose from over 500 audio book Mystery and Suspense titles on CD and MP3-CD format.
Bastuli Mystery Library
This web site provides info, bibliography, reviews and links on
mystery writers.
Bogie's Mystery Tours@
Visit Karen and Bill Palmer's interactive mystery events webpage
- includes links to P.I. Magazine and Mystery Readers International.
Cluelass Web site
Excellent information, good links to mystery games, mystery tv
show links, and other mysterious links.
Crimeculture
is an academic internet site that hopes to have something
to offer anyone teaching or studying crime fiction, film and
graphic
art.
Crime Fiction
Information about classic British authors and detectives.
Cozies Capers
and Crimes Geraldine Galantree's newsletter for mystery fans.
Deadly Directory Online
DorothyL
(mystery listserve) Official Web site
Feminist
Majority Foundation Online: Mystery Corner
Includes audio from "The Rise of the Feminist Sleuth" panel featuring
Joan Hess, Annette Myers, Sandra Scoppettone, Marilyn Wallace,
Carolyn Heilbrun, and Marylouise Oates.
Gaslight
Website
A website for the Internet discussion group which reviews one
story a week from the genres of mystery, adventure and the Weird.
Current and past readings are available.
Glossary of Hardboiled
Slang
Twists, slugs, roscoes, etc. Learn to speak the language of Spade,
Marlowe, Hammer, the Continental Op...
A Guide to
Classic Mystery and Detection
The Gumshoe Site
Award information, and what's new and cool.
Hardboiled
Mysteries
Links, authors, new books, publishers, sections on film and comics.
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic
Mind -
Crime fiction, and more. Sarah Weinman's blog site.
Killing Kompany:
Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre
Lynne's
Mystery Links
Mayhem:
A Mystery Fiction Guide
Reviews, new book information, links to bookstores, and more.
Mostly Links
Mystery Site
Links to: mystery author sites, sites about mystery authors or
their characters, publishers who include mysteries in their line & independent
book stores on line.
Mysteries In Print - Bogies
Bill Palmer's website provides an ongoing listing of mystery books
by sub-genre - also audio books.
Mysterious Homepage
Now a part of the ClueLass site. ClueLass plans to maintain the
MHP as a streamlined, "just the links, ma'am" jumping
off site for the rest of the Internet.
Mysterious
Strands from Cindy Silberblatt
Conference information, links, reading lists.
Mystery and
Mayhem
Reviews, links, lists.
Mystery Ink
Reviews, articles, lists of the best.
Mystery Guide
Reviews, interviews, features, contests.
The Mystery Guild
Mystery Net
Home of The Case, with lots of resources for mystery lovers.
The Mystery Reader
Book reviews, new faces in the mystery biz, feature articles.
From the folks who created The Romance Reader.
Mystery Series Week
website
The Mystery Vault
Archives of four mystery-related digests and three mystery-related
e-newsletters.
Mystery Women
UK based group. The main aims of the group are to raise the awareness
and profile of female crime writers, and to provide a forum for
the discussion of crime fiction by enthusiastic crime fiction
addicts. Site includes reviews, news, links, and events.
Nowheresville: a crime cocktail
with a beatnik twist
Mark Ricketts has created a cool website to promote his 'Crime
Beats'. Check out the scene, and don't overlook his hip noir and
crime reference links.
Page One
A free online newsletter and website about writers for writers.
Author interviews, and more.
Pulp Fiction
Central
Rana's World
- Mystery Links
RARA-AVIS website
Archives for the list devoted to the discussion of hard-boiled
fiction, reading lists, links, discussion.
ReadersCorner: Mystery - the Softer
Side of Murder
Murder with a stiff upper lip, author and detective timeline,
historical detectives, women sleuths, bad guys we love...
Romance Writers of
America - Romantic Suspense Chapter
Secret Agent's
Homepage
This page is "only for the good guys" - check out the spy's bookshelf.
Short Mystery Fiction
Society
"Seeks to actively recognize writers and readers who promote and
support the artform of short mysteries...". Information about
the society, links to related websites, notable short stories,
etc.
Stop, You're Killing
Me!
Author index, series character index, links, etc.
Suite
101.com - Crime Stories
This site's mission it to keep the reader informed about books,
provide links to websites of interest and provide a place to discuss
your ideas and opinions.
Tangled Web
Excellent British mystery and crime site - bibliographies, new
release information, author pages, reviews, etc. Heavy on graphics.
Tart City
Tart Noir, - a web site/zine, featuring Sparkle Hayter, Lauren
Henderson, Katy Munger, Tony Fennelly, Stella Duffy, and an assortment
of other interesting contributors.
The Thrilling Detective
Web Site
Devoted to fictional private eyes and other tough guys in books,
film, television, and radio.
Violet
Books Gallery - Weird Detectives
Dustwrapper images and details about antiquarian books - authors
represented include Melville Davisson Post, A.E.W. Mason, Gordon
Meyrick, Sax Rohmer & Isabel Ostrander.
Virtual Murder
- what's on the Internet for mystery buffs
Compiled by Barbara Paul. Lots of resouces, briefly annotated.
Just for fun . . .
Browse for Nick Danger tidbits and other silly stuff from Firesign Theatre.
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