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[There are many Mystery Sites on the Internet -- this is just my own consolidation, plus my personal mystery pages, links to other sites, and to publishers, and some categories.]

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There will be a series of web pages about individual authors, and they will all be based on a marathon reading by Grobius of their ouevre. (Disgusting sounding word, like somebody retching, but many French words sound that way to an English speaker). There are already pages about JD Carr and Conan Doyle (and many authors and detectives are constantly being updated in Series Detectives, and the new Women Detectives page) but here are the author-dedicated pages:

Fredric Brown (09/2003)

Edmund Crispin (04/2001)

Colin Dexter (03/2001)

Ian Fleming (12/1999)

R. Austin Freeman (01/2005)

Michael Gilbert (01/2000)

Dashiell Hammett (04/2004)

Cyril Hare (04/2001)

Reginald Hill (06/2002)

P.M. Hubbard (10/2003)

Michael Innes (11/2001)

John D MacDonald (09/2003)

Ellery Queen (09/2004)

S.S. Van Dine (04/2001)

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This is an admittedly opinionated and curmudgeonly site that adheres to pretty strict rules about what a mystery novel is: (a) it has to have a puzzling plot, where the clues are hidden but the reader has a chance to find them and figure out the solution, (b) the solution must be arrived at by logical deduction (by implication, then, a mystery story must have a detective), (c) it should not agonize over characters' emotional hang-ups except when they provide some motivation for the crime, (d) it should not provide a cop-out solution (i.e., the murderer is some person who never even appeared in the book, or it was all a plot by evil oriental gangs using secret passages and unknown poisons). Gangster thrillers do not apply either (although there is nothing intrinsically wrong about having gangsters in a mystery). Given those provisos, please enjoy this site, but don't complain because Mickey Spillane or Charlie Chan is left out. Click here for a further definition, or here for the basic rules.

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