Mystery Stories
Who is the best author for mystery novels and I don’t mean scary ones. Just good ole’ mystery stories.
You know like the who done it kind? Nothing scary…I don’t like that. Any good book titles would be great too.
I also like mystery novels involving the ocean, lighthouses, beaches…that sort of thing.
Wow, thanks to all who answered. I had to print the page so I could keep all the suggestions. Looks like I have lots of new stories to check out…summer and winter reading! Thanks again. Don’t think I can choose “best answer” because sereral were very good.
Agatha Christie wrote some of the best mysteries ever.
Patricia Wentworth and Mignon Eberhart are also good authors, but a lot of their books are out of print (they wrote separately, not together, just in case there might be any confusion from the way I worded it). Look for these at your local libraries and used bookstores.
Also the Leonidas Witherall mysteries by Phoebe Atwood Taylor writing as Alice Tilton.
The Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle are, of course, classics.
Another good detective series is the Perry Mason mysteries by Erle Stanley Gardner, featuring a criminal defense attorney.
A more contemporary choice is Carolyn G. Hart, who writes a Henrie O series and an Annie & Max (Death on Demand) series.
A gentle mystery series involving a little of the supernatural (but without being spooky; it has a friendly ghost) is the Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton.
This doesn’t qualify in the “whodunnit” category, but for great madcap comedy, read “One for the Money” by Janet Evanovich, and keep reading by the numbers (she just finished “Lean Mean Thirteen”).
Get more book suggestions at
http://www.nancysbooknook.com/BackShelves/Categories/Fiction/MysteryArchives.htm
http://www.librarything.com/
http://www.goodreads.com/
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Tales of Mystery & Imagination $2.52 As unlikely as the idea seems today to use the suspense-filled stories of Edgar Allan Poe as the basis for an album of rock tunes, listeners in the 1970s–who were barraged with such high-flown concepts during the heyday of prog-rock–turned the record into a major hit. The Project actually scored a Top 40 hit with “(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather.” Thanks to FM radio overplay, h… |
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Mother Goose Rock N Rhyme [VHS] $12.99 Mother Goose is missing from Rhymeland and it’s up to Little Bo Peep and Mother Goose’s son, Gordon, to find her. What is Rhymeland? It’s the land of nursery rhymes created by Mother Goose. Problem is, if Mother Goose isn’t around to keep the nursery rhymes alive, Rhymeland and its inhabitants will simply disappear. In this colorful, somewhat demented place, rock stars masquerade as Mother Goose c… |
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