Mystery Websites

Authors, books, reviews, Crime Scene, discussion and news.

An on-going listing of new and upcoming mystery books and books on tape. Books and audio tapes can be purchased online.

Online mystery network offering mystery entertainment and information.

Information about mystery novels and authors. Includes book reviews.

Message board for fans of mysteries in the classic tradition, including those written by Ellery Queen, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, and Agatha Christie.

Information about African American mystery writers and characters. Reviews and news are also featured.

Nicaragua issued a series of postage stamps portraying a dozen fictional detectives.

List of holiday-theme murder mysteries and their authors, categorized by holiday.

Mormon and Utah-based fictional detectives, and the mystery novels in which they appear.

Search engine for novels, with specific search elements, including plot, theme, characters, and setting.

A guide to both the history of the mystery novel and to locating modern mysteries by topic and style.

Article covering the history of the genre, its categories, use in film and criticism.

Showcases mysteries in which the main character is a lesbian. Browse by author or by character. For each author, a link to official site if possible, profile of the character, bibliography. Notes Lambda-winning authors.

An interactive online book club where crime fiction lovers can have discussions in a forum, download podcasts, view webisodes and find out more about the accompanying TV show.

History, trends, schools of writing, and an alphabetical list of mystery authors.

Traces the development of the early whodunit in both mystery and conventional literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Introductions to over 180 clerical detectives, including detecting clergy, ex-clergy, monks, nuns and several others.