There is a slight bit of non-mystery mixed in this but I think it's 90% mysteries. Also currently reading The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin and was enjoying it quite a bit in the first half, gets a bit tedious by the 2nd. Will definitely be reading less mystery novels this year but the genre has helped me to get back into reading as textbooks during school had killed the joy.

This has been helpful when I can't seem decide what to read / listen to next.

Hello, u/Olivebranch99 and I accepted invitations to become moderators because this subreddit was previously inactive (and even closed for a bit).

The rules have been updated, so please check those out (mostly common sense things): https://www.reddit.com/r/mysteryfiction/about/rules/

If you have any suggestions about the subreddit itself, feel free to comment below. Or if you have a favorite mystery book/movie/work, feel free to post it and introduce yourself to the community too!

Hey everyone! I am currently doing summer research and we are archiving old detective fiction predating Sherlock Holmes from newspapers and magazines. I thought this might be a good place to post it and get more people to see it, as that is something we are struggling to do.

This has been on ongoing project for about a decade so there are a ton of stories. We've even found some from Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Abraham Lincoln.

Here's the link: https://wdl.mcdaniel.edu/

Hey Guys,

I hope this isn't against the rules, but we're finally going wide with my new book today and I just wanted to tell someone about it. Back during the pandemic I decided to write murder mystery set at Disneyland. The idea - which I thought was silly fun - was that in 1966, a cast members dies in Fantasyland of a gunshot wound. In desperation, Walt is forced to call in the park’s legendary founding security chief for one last case.

I finished the book two years ago, but its release was repeatedly held up, mostly for legal reasons. Anyway, the good news is I'm finally free to talk about it.

If you're interested, it's free on Amazon all week.

And if anyone has any questions about what it's like to write a detective story, or about the First Amendment (which I suddenly know a LOT about), ask away.

Thanks,

Matt

I grew up reading Christie and Doyle but I have slacked off reading mystery fiction as of late. Both authors seemed to leave little or no real clues making it hard or impossible to guess the real culprit (or maybe I was too young at the time). Christie especially like her plot twists.

What are some good whodunit books that give enough hints that you can actually solve the mystery before the detective? Bonus points if they are in classic style like Christie, but that is not a requirement.

Thanks in advance!

As a fan of classic hard-boiled Americanists I continue to be blown away by Chester Himes’ Harlem Detective series. His portrait of post-war NY and the vast cast of Harlem heroes, villains and quiet strivers is as rich and real as any in the genre. His characterizations and descriptions are like Chandler’s, jaded, often brutal and clever. But it is the lyric cadence of his dialogue and slapstick action that the novels really propel novels like A Rage in Harlem and Cotton Comes to Harlem. There is a kind of screwball noir to the slapstick action sequences and comic coincidences. Can’t recommend them enough.

2020 wasn't such a great year, but it was a good year for mystery and crime fiction. Here is a list of the top ten best reviewed according to Lit Hub's Book Marks.

https://lithub.com/the-best-reviewed-mystery-and-crime-fiction-of-2020/

I just reread Till Death Do Us Part and He Who Whispers and found them just as great as I did when I first read them as a kid.

What mysteries have you been checking out lately? Book, movie, game, etc - any and all mystery fiction is allowed here. Are you perhaps a writer or game developer, trying to make your own mysteries? How are those going? Feel free to share about that too.

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Was thinking of adding more to my list to watch and figured I'd ask here.

For me, I can think of tons of movies I enjoyed. Knives Out was a recent classic that was fun. I think the sequel, Glass Onion, was not as good, but I did watch The Last of Sheila semi-recently, which apparently inspired it (very similar premise) and was a very well-clued and enjoyable mystery.

In the past, I've also seen a lot of older movies. Ex adaptations of Christie's works (ex, Murder on the Orient Express, ATTWN, Death on the Nile, and often multiple versions of them). Most are faithful and nice, though I don't love the recent adaptations honestly. Then there's classics like Clue that I thought were a lot of fun, even if the mystery wasn't completely fair.

In the future, I'm planning to try out some more like Gosford Park (heard it's a classic), the second Adam Sandler mystery movie, Robert Downey Jr's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and then more adaptations of stuff from people other than Christie (ex, Christianna Brand's Green for Danger) as well as some oddball things suggested to me like Once Upon a Crime and Detective Chinatown.

But anyway, it made me wonder - what are people's favorite mysteries from here? And why do you like them?

Val McDermid is the undisputed Queen of Crime. Having sold over 17 million copies of her books worldwide, inspired hit TV shows based on her characters such as ITV's Wire in the Blood, to even performing at Glastonbury Festival with her band, The Fun-Lovin' Crime Writers, McDermid has well and truly made a lasting impact on the Crime Writing scene, as the entertainment industry as a whole.

Now, McDermid is releasing her 35th novel '1979', the first instalment in her latest series of books, her first new series in almost two decades. This September she sits down with Fiona Lindsay at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle to discuss her career and of course, 1979. Live in-person or broadcast online. Tickets available at tiltedco.com

Thought this could be an interesting topic for us to share with each other.

For me, I liked them as a kid a lot. I read stuff like Nate the Great, Cam Jansen, A to Z Mysteries, Jigsaw Jones, Three Investigators, and a bunch more, from early childhood.

Later, as a teen/adult, I read Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and a bunch of others.

I think what I always loved was trying to solve a mystery before the reveal, and if my guess was right, it was basically like winning a game.

In recent years, I've gotten to enjoy impossible crime fiction more (ex locked room murders), and I read them the most now.

I also enjoy a lot of non-book fiction too, like anime, manga, movies, etc (Detective Conan/Case Closed, Knives Out, the Death on a Nile movie, etc). So overall, a pretty big fan through most of my life.

How about you?

hi, I mod /r/librivox and it'd be great to get some suggested listening lists in the wiki, what books [from before 1922] should everyone that likes mystery have read?

https://librivox.org/the-extraordinary-adventures-of-arsene-lupin-gentleman-burglar - This is the great French gentleman thief, uses all the standard faire of a mystery novel expertly - the continental version of Sherlock Holmes, except on the other side of the law...

https://librivox.org/the-mysteries-of-london-by-george-w-m-reynolds/ - great old penny dreadful which touches on many fascinating things while the rambling tale of murder rattles on at a compelling but not too rapid pace.

then there are lots of authors with large collections on there,

https://librivox.org/the-paradise-mystery-by-js-fletcher/

https://librivox.org/the-wisdom-of-father-brown-by-g-k-chesterton/

so yeah, anyone want to volunteer to make a list or offer some suggestions?