Those of you who tune in for the Uncommon Mysteries I post here will be happy to learn that Genius Books has agreed to publish a collection of them to be titled Uncommon Mysteries: An Accidental History of Mystery Fiction. I'm hoping that the book will be out in the late summer of 2026. Genius Books published my last book in 1924--the one illustrated to the right here. These mystery notes began after I retired from teaching, as commentaries on the public radio station WKMS at Murray State University in Kentucky. I got interested in other writing projects after a year or two, but I have continued the mystery notes on my blog, and I now find I have notes on 120 authors and about 150 books, dating from the nineteenth century up to the 2020s, and that taken together they give a history of mystery fiction and all its subgenres of locked-room mysteries, cozies, police procedurals, hard-boiled detective stories, and so on.
I'll be continuing to post about my reading here, but for the mystery notes you'll have to wait for the book. Thanks for reading.
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