A Mystery Starter Kit!

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A Mystery Starter Kit!

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A Mystery Starter Kit!
1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of the Four, A Study in Scarlet, The Final Problem, The Adventure of the Empty House
2. Agatha Christie: Nemesis, Murder on the Orient Express
Dorothy Sayers: Gaudy Night
plus: Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham
3. Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time
Me writing about Richard:
www.openletters...
4. Rex Stout!
5. Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely
Dashiell Hamett: The Maltese Falcon
James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice
6. Police procedurals! PD James, Ed McBain, Martha Grimes, Elizabeth George, Donna Leon, etc. etc.!
7. Georges Simenon!
8. Ruth Rendell! (and Robert Harris)
9. Country House Murders!
the greatest of all English Country House Murder anthologies makes the list:
www.openletters...
10. Historical murder mysteries!
Steven Saylor! John Maddox Roberts! Lindsay Davis, David Wishart, Robert Van Gulik, CJ Sansom, Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen whodunits!
Me writing about Judge Dee:
www.openletters...
Me writing about Donna Leon (one among many choices!):
www.openletters...
Me writing about David Wishart:
www.openletters...
Me writing about Dorothy Sayers:
www.openletters...
Me writing about Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen:
www.openletters...
Join the fun of March Mystery Madness:
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Lisa from Books & Smiles
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Mike and Becca from Books and Looks
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Mara from bookslikewhoa
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Courtny from Courtagonist
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Di from Disis19 Hearts (hosting for her 2nd year)
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Emily of Emily Sears
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Catherine from Jayne Catherine on Books
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Kay of Kay T
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Kady @lilkadykitty on Twitter will be hosting Twitter sprints
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Elizabeth from LizziefayeLovesBooks (co-creator)
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Laura from mom2triplets04
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Sarah from Not Just Romance Novels
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Alicia of Pretty Brown Eye Reader
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Jen of Remembered Reads
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Jo of Retired Book Nerd
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Sarah S. from Sarah's Nightstand
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Steve of Steve Donoghue
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Stephanie from Time to Read
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Tim of World of Sleuths
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Guest hosts:
Troi of Troi Towel (co-creator)
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Lesley of WordsofaReader
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Louise the BigHaired Bookworm
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@lilliannieswender266 6 жыл бұрын

I think The Name of the Rose is an excellent historical mystery novel.

@pandittroublejr 3 ай бұрын

I agree... 🙏🏾🥰

@katehowereads 6 жыл бұрын

What a treat this video was! I had my Goodreads at the ready and added way too many titles. So happy to hear Ruth Rendell mentioned - she's my favorite and is sadly overlooked on booktube. Elizabeth George's books never cease to blow me away - I'm only going through her books so slowly because I'll be so bereft when I'm caught up.

@JenniMReads 6 жыл бұрын

What a great list! I know you are not a friend scandi-crime, but in my opinion the husband and wife writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Pehr Wahlöö should be included in the list of police procedurals. Their aim was to hold up a mirror to social problems in the 1960's Sweden. They wrote 10 Martin Beck books.The first book in the series, Rosanna, was published in 1965. They really set a trend that many later writers, such as Henning Mankell with his Wallander books, followed.

@jamesholder13 6 жыл бұрын

Very good starter kit. I'm working my way through the Miss Marple novels this year. I'm quite enjoying myself.

@BohoBookworm 6 жыл бұрын

Definitely want to get my hands on A Daughter of Time, now. Thanks Steve.

@billruttenberg 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestions Steve. I know that I have really liked reading them lately and this list gives me a lot more books to go look for. Great video.

@pegthebookprizeaddict579 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic....I have been working through the mystery series list you gave a few weeks ago🙋‍♀️👍📚

@debrairish1393 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant summary, Steve.

@saintdonoghue 6 жыл бұрын

Someone helped me put the list together, but you wouldn't know her, since SHE'S not a wicked pissah loser!

@JosephQuinton 6 жыл бұрын

This was so enjoyable and informative. Thank you for sharing.

@jansmith9391 6 жыл бұрын

Maybe my favorite of your videos. Excellent sub genres, and choices within! Please consider doing recommendations for the more seasoned mystery reader, at some point.

@laracroft1829 6 жыл бұрын

This was great! Thanks for all the info in the description box.

@elenamakridina8196 6 жыл бұрын

No. It's too short! I want more!!!!

@michaelfeeney6108 6 жыл бұрын

I’ve been looking forward to this video!

@bobjjjjj 6 жыл бұрын

I love all the Sherlock Holmes stories but I have to admit I have not read a lot of other murder mystery's. I do have quite a few of the hard-boiled/noir mystery's you where talking about on my shelf though so I should try to get to them soon!

@GypsyRoSesx Жыл бұрын

The Hound of the Baskervilles was a little silly but I loved A Study in Scarlet. I do plan to read all Sherlock. I’ve read Poe’s work and I really liked it. I’m just at the beginning of reading these types of books. I’m going to read A Mysterious Affair at Styles tonight. Even though I haven’t read that much I’m interested in every thing and lists like this help me to get to the good stuff.

@GypsyRoSesx Жыл бұрын

I love the movies based on Chandler, Hammett and Cain’s novels.

@RunwrightReads 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for these recommendations

@elenamakridina8196 6 жыл бұрын

What about Elizabeth Peters and her Amalia Peabody mysteries? Where to put them?:))))

@kellykroger272 6 жыл бұрын

My favorite is the J.W. Jackson series set in Martha's Vineyard. Jackson is a retired, disabled Boston cop who lives on the Vineyard doing odd jobs and such. My family and I have vacationed there for many years and during the off season these books are a solace because the author Philip Craig brings the Vineyard vividly to life. Have you read any of these?

@lizziefayelovesbooks 6 жыл бұрын

Bahahaha! "Someone has died, you shouldn't be giving me recipes!" This is why you are a treat to watch Steve! This is an awesome video! Thanks so much for doing it. For the first year of #marchmysterymadness one of the challenges specifically was to read an Agatha Christie or one of three Edgar Allen Poe Dupin stories since Christie and Poe are basically the matriarch and patriarch of murder mysteries. I'm glad to see that we were on the right track from the beginning. One of these days I want to read Dorothy Sayers. I have Gaudy Night. Is it okay to start with that one, or do I need to start at the beginning?

@tomaria100 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@gaildoughty6799 6 жыл бұрын

Great Starter Kit! Very few disagreements with you-can’t abide Elizabeth George, far too gruesome for me; Allingham only wrote a couple of good ones out of many; after four or five Martha Grimes mysteries I became terminally bored. But what a service you’ve provided with this one! Thanks, Steve!

@rachelport3723 6 жыл бұрын

I just deleted a long comment I wanted to edit. Anyway, thanks for this fun video. I discovered mysteries when Lillian Hellman's memoirs introduced me to Dashiell Hammett. Go figure. I went from there to Dorothy Sayers a few years later. Sayers is one of the writers I would read even if she were writing something besides mysteries, simply for her prose. (Elizabeth George and Jonathan Kellerman are two others.) And I would include Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone and The Woman in White among the books that began the genre. Josephine Tey in Brat Farrar and The Franchise Affair, but also in Miss Pym Disposes; and Agatha Christie in the Miss Marple books A Caribbean Mystery, Nemisis, and my favorite Sleeping Murder, are two writers who do not flinch from looking at evil. I think women writers are less less squeamish about evil. You left out the legal thriller category. John Grisham is the most popular, but I prefer Scott Turow and Lisa Scottoline. And since I lived many years in the west suburbs of Boston, I really enjoy Jane Langton (another one who writes beautifully), and Katherine Hall Page. And I would definitely include Tony Hillerman on the police procedural list. I'm so glad to discover you.

@mom2triplets04 6 жыл бұрын

I just read the murder on the orient express this past month. I didn't like the writing style had to move to audio. But yup that twist at the end was something I never read before.

@mitchelaxler7656 6 жыл бұрын

A fair-minded and excellent starter kit. I have only two comments. I think you misplace the Maigret novels by Simenon--Maigret is a police inspector, but his novels are better classified as psychological murder mysteries, for a crime is an occasion for going beyond apparent motive to the people involved and their immediate society. Maigret is psychologically acute and possessed of a will and a need to understand. It is the process of observation, understanding, and inquiry that interests him. I forget who made the following accurate comment: :"Maigret is who God would get if he needed a policeman to enforce as much justice as fallible human beings can stand and as much mercy as is good for them." Or, better yet, Maigret is a mender of destinies to the extent it is within his power. As to historical murder mysteries, why not mention two of the best: The Name of the Rose and An Instance of the Fingerpost?