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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 9d

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

Cover of Clues: A Journal of Detection with photo of author Thomas Harris. Theme issue on Disability & Detective Fiction

Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 3d

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...

Cover of The Hollow Tree Mystery by Madelon St Denis with an illustration of a dead body in a tree.with the head held by two hands

Cover of The Jekyll-Hyde Murder Case by Madelon St Denis w/ an illustration of a woman in a strapless lavender evening dress seated next to a lamp and a table with cards on it.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 3d

Harriet Prescott Spofford is an early #mystery writer: "In a Cellar" (1859), "Mr. Furbush" (1865), "In the Maguerriwock" (1868).

Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 9d

Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 10d

Now on $ale at @mcfarland.bsky.social ! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/zasu...

Cover of ZaSu Pitts: The Life and Career with an image of ZaSu Pitt wearing a dress with white accents on the sleeve and collar.

Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 10d

Mary Roberts Rinehart earned $6M+ from _The Bat_ (based on her novel _The Circular Staircase_). Some film/TV versions: a 1926 silent film shown in 2024 w/live musical accompaniment; a 1959 film w/Vincent Price & Agnes Moorehead; & a 1960 TV episode w/Helen Hayes, Margaret Hamilton & Jason Robards

Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 17d

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

Sherlock Holmes (with pipe between teeth and sitting in a chair) by artist Sidney Paget.

Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 18d

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 18d

She was a favorite author of the Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley. She wrote beautifully (we lost her too soon to an aortic aneurysm).

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 18d

Drew Gilpin Faust
(also concur about John Keegan)

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 19d

. @deanstpress.bsky.social has reprinted Wentworth's non-Miss Silver bks. www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/pages/author...

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 23d

Third row!🙂

Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 23d

There's a remastered version avbl of the score by Bernard Herrmann. www.musicbox-records.com/en/cd-soundt...

Sisters (Remastered Reissue) | Bernard HERRMANN | CD

Sisters (Remastered Reissue), CD Soundtrack. Music Composed and Conducted by Bernard Herrmann, Music Box Records - Limited Edition, MBR-246

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Sep 2

My favorite was a bk owned by a friend of mine: a romance novel w/the hero holding the hand of the heroine & the heroine's left arm resting next to her....and then she had another hand (no, it wasn't a sci-fi novel). I think one hand was meant to be painted out...

Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Sep 2

You have to bear in mind that Heyer's mysteries were written w/ her husband (he devised the plots; she did the writing). So they are not the product of a single individual like her Regencies are.

Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Sep 2

For Ichabod Crane fans—new from @mcfarland.bsky.social . mcfarlandbooks.com/product/slee... #WashingtonIrving #SleepyHollow #Halloween #literature

Cover of _Sleepy Hollow as American Myth_ (about Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") with an illustration of the Headless Horseman on horseback holding his pumpkin head in his hand.

Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Aug 25

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 · Aug 22

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."

The Facts in the Case of “Harry O”

Almost 51 years have passed now since actor David Janssen ’s fourth and final TV series, the private-eye drama Harry O , debuted on America’...

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Aug 25

Marsh's fiance died in #WW1. mcfarlandbooks.com/series/mcfar...

Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hope you have read Emma Lathen.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Aug 17

The Scarlett books are romances, and there is one mystery (they are for adults, not children).

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Aug 17

Are you familiar w/Noel Streatfeild's pseudonym, Susan Scarlett? Bks now back in print thanks to @deanstpress.bsky.social‬ . www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/pages/author...

Cover of the WWII-set mystery Murder While You Work by Susan Scarlett (aka Noel Streatfeild) with an illustration of a woman in a 1940s tan dress framed by a roof and by flowers and looking at a Victory Loan image.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Aug 14

#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

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Aug 13

Walter Satterthwait, "Murder One" (Neanderthal detective)

Simon Brett, "A Note of Note" (story told from the POV of a 10-pound note)

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Aug 13

Clues 33.1, 2015, The Professor Rises:  Sci, Victorian Viagra & Masculine Libido in “The Creeping Man” JOSHUA A WADE; Clues 35.1, 2017,Old Holmes: Sherlock, Testosterone & "The Creeping Man" SYLVIA PAMBOUKIAN elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2015/05/clue...
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Clues 35.1: Conan Doyle, French, Mitchell, Oates, Orczy et al.

A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · Aug 11

"The Bookworm" by Oliver Herford. From _A Phenomenal Fauna_ by Carolyn Wells (1902).