All This Fricassee I Scribble

En fin, toute cette fricassee que je barbouille icy n’est qu’un registre des essais de ma vie…. (All this fricassee I scribble here is nothing but a record of the essays of my life….) --Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience”

Friday, October 3, 2025

UNCOMMON MYSTERIES: The Best American Mystery Stories 2005, edited by Joyce Carol Oates (2005)

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               The first mystery in The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 is really a crime story, and an indication why Joyce Carol Oates...
Friday, September 26, 2025

UNCOMMON MYSTERIES: Edmund Pearson, Studies in Murder (1924)

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             Pearson’s important contribution to the genre of True Crime recounts what was known in 1924 of five murder cases, using court r...

UNCOMMON MYSTERIES: William Roughead, Classic Crimes (1951)

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             Mystery writers were inspired by true crime stories, and one of the best chroniclers in that line was William Roughead. Roughea...
Monday, September 22, 2025

UNCOMMON MYSTERIES: Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase (1908)

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             Fortyish spinster Rachel Innes has taken a house in the country for the summer, and goes there with her nervous maid Liddy, who...
Monday, September 1, 2025

UNCOMMON MYSTERIES: Blanche on the Lam, by Barbara Neely (1992)

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               Barbara Neely’s Blanche on the Lam , published by Penguin in 1992, is unusual partly because of its detective, a plump, 40-ye...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

UNCOMMON MYSTERIES: Hake Talbot, Rim of the Pit (1944)

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               Henning Nelms used the Hake Talbot pseudonym only for his mysteries, The Hangman’s Handyman (1942) and Rim of the Pit (1944...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

UNCOMMON MYSTERIES: The Roman Hat Mystery, by Ellery Queen (1929)

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               Ellery Queen was the pen name of Frederic Dannay (born Daniel Nathan) and Manfred Bennington Lee (born Emanuel Benjamin Lepof...
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