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Author Archives: dorothyjames
Story Behind The Mousetrap
Behind every murder mystery, like it or not, there is a murder, often fictional, sometimes real. After reading my review of the Berlin Kriminaltheater performance of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” Jessica Best, of CardiffRead, reporter for the South Wales Argus, … Continue reading
Posted in Berlin theater, murder mystery, mystery play
Tagged Agatha Christie, CardiffRead, Kriminaltheater Berlin
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Agatha Christie in Berlin
Longest Running Cozy in the World: Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap has been running uninterruptedly in London since November 25, 1952. Last night I saw it here in the Kriminaltheater in Berlin. This theater, with its repertoire of murder mystery plays, from … Continue reading
Posted in Berlin theater, cozy mystery, detective fiction, mystery play
Tagged Agatha Christie, Berliner Kriminaltheater
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Vienna Mysteries, Not Cozy: Frank Tallis Quotes
Pastries and Perversion: To whet your appetite for my upcoming review of one of Frank Tallis’s great mysteries, here are some quotations from his work. He has in less than a decade written six striking psychological thrillers, set in turn-of-the-last-century Vienna. I … Continue reading
Posted in mystery, psychological thriller, quotations, Uncategorized
Tagged Frank Tallis, Sigmund Freud
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Interview with Patricia Rockwell
I came upon the cozy mysteries of Patricia Rockwell by a happy chance on Twitter, and was intrigued by them for various reasons. I am grateful to her for agreeing to be interviewed, and I hope to find out how … Continue reading
Two Cozy Mysteries by Patricia Rockwell
Sounds of Murder 2010 and FM for Murder 2011, are Patricia Rockwell’s first two cozy mysteries. I encountered them by chance, like so many things these days, on Twitter. They are both published by Rockwell’s own small publishing house, the CozyCatPress. I bought and read … Continue reading
Quotations: And other people say . . .
Dorothy L. Sayers Death in particular seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of innocent amusement than any other single subject. Quoted by P.D. James in TalkingaboutDetectiveFiction (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, Toronto, 2009, … Continue reading
Posted in mystery, quotations
Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L.Sayers, P.D.James
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Cozy Murder Mysteries: A Contradiction in Terms?
When I first encountered the term “cozy mystery,” I had already written one murder mystery. Someone asked me, was mine a cozy. I really didn’t know. I have read murder mysteries from time to time throughout my life—all of Dorothy L. … Continue reading
Quotations: And other people say. . .
. . .on other historical mystery/thrillers . . . these came to mind after reviewing William Ryan’s “The Holy Thief” . . . Hans Fallada wrote in his 1946 Foreword to his great postwar novel of the Nazi years in Germany, … Continue reading
Review of William Ryan’s “The Holy Thief”
There is a great book club in my native Wales, called CardiffRead. They meet once a month and communicate electronically in between. This month they are reading William Ryan’s The Holy Thief (Minotaur, New York, 2010). I bought this book … Continue reading
Quotations: And other people say . . .
Erik Routley: In a perfect world there will be no need for detective stories: but then there will be nothing to detect. Their disappearance at this moment, however, will not bring the world any nearer to perfection. The high-minded would … Continue reading
My Place for Mystery 