Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Genres: Mystery
See also: This category in other languages: - History, trends, schools of writing, and an alphabetical list of mystery authors. - Search engine for novels, with specific search elements, including plot, theme, characters, and setting. - Conference for readers and writers held in Canada every year. Program, news and updates, list of attendees, and registration details are included. - 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. - Reviews, links, and information about authors, conventions, and awards. - Introductions to over 180 clerical detectives, including detecting clergy, ex-clergy, monks, nuns and several others. - Contains information about awards, events, groups, new books, bookstores, magazines and other mystery websites. - Nicaragua issued a series of postage stamps portraying a dozen fictional detectives. - 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. - List of holiday-theme murder mysteries and their authors, categorized by holiday. - Weblog by a fan of mystery novels and crime fiction. Includes book reviews, author updates, genre news, and links to related content. - A guide to both the history of the mystery novel and to locating modern mysteries by topic and style. - Mormon and Utah-based fictional detectives, and the mystery novels in which they appear. - Information about African American mystery writers and characters. Reviews and news are also featured. - An on-going listing of new and upcoming mystery books and books on tape. Books and audio tapes can be purchased online. - Background discussion and table-form bibliography. - 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. - Information about mystery novels and authors. Includes book reviews. - Online mystery network offering mystery entertainment and information. - Lists authors and series characters, indexed by last name, location and occupation. - Features mini-mysteries, book reviews, message board, and links. - Archive includes book reviews, reading list and recommendations, and links. - Authors, books, reviews, Crime Scene, discussion and news. - Features books, reviews, children's mysteries, and links. Feature author is Agatha Christie. - Traces the development of the early whodunit in both mystery and conventional literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. - Discussion of mystery novel standards by Willard Huntington Wright. - Article covering the history of the genre, its categories, use in film and criticism.
