Mystery

[close] “Police procedurals, psychological or domestic thrillers, serial killers, romantic suspense, creepy ghost stories or just good old fashioned complex mysteries...Tall, Dark & Deadly is committed to reading and discussing every sub genre of mysteries, suspense & thrillers—historical, contemporary and futuristic.”

[close] Cozy Mystery Lovers! If you enjoy lighthearted cozy mysteries, please join us to read the featured monthly books, play some games, and participate in a challenge. Find a comfortable chair, grab a snack and your favorite beverage, and settle in for some cozy fun! This group is not a place for authors to promote themselves and their books. You are welcome in the group if you are participating in group discussions. But promotional posts will be deleted unless posted in the Author/Blogger folder.

[close] Started somewhat as a reaction to the British cozy mystery of the Agatha Christie style (think Murder She Wrote), there came a demand for something more real, action where the stakes were higher, the participants (good and bad) sleazier, the police on the take, the ladies fatal for any would-be patsy. This American answer to Sherlock Holmes became the basis for the film noir revolution of the 1940s. Our big three in this genre are Dashiel Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain. There are excellent crime and mystery fiction groups here on GoodReads and I have no intention of reinventing that wheel. I just want to carve out a niche. The focus in this group is narrower, more historical. We examine not only the classics of hardboiled crime fiction, mostly from the first two thirds of the twentieth century, but also quest together for forgotten and under-appreciated writers of this genre. We will be dredging up bullet-riddled, fish-eaten corpses of pulp fiction that were placed in a canvas burlap bag, weighted down with mason bricks, and dumped in the Hudson decades ago. Besides enjoying the classics, we're going to examine some of the cold case authors that wrote for Black Mask, Spicy Mystery Stories, and an amazing plethora of other fine periodicals, as well as hopefully discover other sources I may be unaware of at the time of this writing.

[close] Welcome and join us for our monthly group reads. We read Mysteries, Thrillers, and a variety of subgenres. True Crime, Cozy Mysteries, and Series are also discussed in the group.