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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Clues 44.2 (2026) published; theme issue on "Reappraising James Ellroy" elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2026/09/Clu4...

Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In honor of EQMM's 85th anniv, I write on its blog about unexpected authors whose wk has appeared in the magazine (like that of Pearl S. Buck & H.G. Wells) somethingisgoingtohappen.net/2026/09/11/b...

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Aug 4 "Israel Zangwill at 100" free online symposium will incl a paper in the 12:10-12:50 ET slot, "Humour in Zangwill’s 'The Big Bow Mystery,'" by Aparna Prakashbabu Uma (U-Leeds). Zangwill's 1892 novel is an important locked-rm #mystery . Link to register: uri-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Clips from "The Case of the Late Pig" (1968, based on the novel by Margery Allingham) from the _Detective_ TV series

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

On Another Shirt Ruined (podcast on #AmeliaPeabody & friends), IU Lilly Library archivist Ava Dickerson talks about wking w/the papers of author Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels/Barbara Mertz www.iheart.com/podcast/1333... #detectivefiction #Egyptology #archaeology

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"He was just being American": clip frm Ngaio Marsh's _Death in Ecstasy_ (_Detective_ TV series) w/Geoffrey Keen as Alleyn bsky.app/profile/arch... @archivetvmusings.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My new Jury Box column w/reviews of mystery short story collections & classic reprints is now posted at _Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine_, featuring wks that focus on the impossible crime (Barker, Brand, Chadwick, Collins, Fremlin, Lovesey, Stribling). elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/curr.../the-...

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The Torists Intl will be hosting the conf "And It Is Always 1895" in honor of the 140th bday of writer, journalist, critic, collector & noted #Sherlockian Vincent Starrett (1886–1974) on 23–25 Oct 2026 in Bensenville, IL (near O'Hare Airport) www.anditisalways1895.org/home

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Through Father's Day (June 21), take 25% off #military #history bks at @mcfarland.bsky.social w/coupon code MEMORIAL26. mcfarlandbooks.com/shop/military/ #WW1 #WW2 #submarines #Vietnam #Korea #Iran #CivilWar #RevolutionaryWar #Holocaust

Image of Ravensbruck prisoner Liri Xhunga

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

@mcfarland.bsky.social 's George Boziwick nabbed the Ray & Pat Browne Awd for Best Edited Reference/Primary Source Wk in Popular & American Culture from @pcaaca.bsky.social for his bk _The Music of #Baseball: A History & Catalog of Selected Wks_ mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...

Cover for George Boziwick's The Music of Baseball featuring a vintage illustration of a woman in a large hat with plumes and a man with arm extended holding a hat; they are watching a baseball game.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Visual Haggard is a website featuring illustrations from the works of H. Rider Haggard www.visualhaggard.org #Victorian #Egypt #literature

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The #Victorian #Jewish Writers Project is organizing a virtual roundtable on Israel Zangwill for Aug 2026 and would like to receive expressions of interest re participation by 5 June. There may be those in the #mystery community who wish to discuss his _Big Bow Mystery_ (1892).

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Best Part of the Bk podcast on _Clues: A Journal of Detection_ w/exec editor Caroline Reitz & me, incl discussion of the Clues issue on #disability & #detectivefiction. Those who wish to subscribe to Clues can get 25% off w/coupon code BESTPART mcfarlandbooks.com/connect/best...

Cover of Clues 43.2 (2025) with photo of author Thomas Harris.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Author James Sallis died on Jan 27 at age 81. Although he might be best known for _Drive_, he had a long & distinguished career, incl. this well-respected biography of Chester Himes elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2026/02/Sall... #BlackHistoryMonth

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Dec 15/4:30P ET: Zoom w/@nicholasbirns.bsky.social & Margaret Boe Birns (NYU) re their new _#AgathaChristie Under the Magnifying Glass: Close Readings of 12 Novels_. Spec guest @jcbernthal.com (_Agatha Christie: A Companion to the #Mystery Fiction_) elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/12/Birn...

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December 15 Zoom event on the work of Agatha Christie.

A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

The @mcfarland.bsky.social holiday $ale is on—take 35% off w/coupon code HOLIDAY25 till Dec 1 (drops to 25% off after this date). Intriguing new bk: American Magdalene, in which Brenda S Tolian unmasks the author behind a 1919 acct of a sex wker in the US & Canada mcfarlandbooks.com/product/amer...

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American Magdalene The Life Behind the Scandalous Book Madeleine: An Autobiography Brenda S. Tolian 978-1-4766-9801-4 978-1-4766-5792-9

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

YMCA entertainer Ruth Charlotte Bush died at age 29 due to poison gas exposure during her #WW1 svc. writing in 1918, “…I wouldn’t have missed these experiences for anything any one could offer me. I know that when all is over I shall be a better, stronger, truer girl” buff.ly/ZNkZut5

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Article by U-FL law prof @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social on often forgotten early female US judges—some obtaining their positions yrs before the 19th amendment. Image: suffragist & lawyer Catharine Waugh McCulloch, who was elected in 1907 as a justice of the peace in IL. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Illustration of suffragist and lawyer Catharine Waugh McCulloch

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I recently visited the Edward Gorey House on Cape Cod and learned that Gorey was a devoted #mystery fan. I blogged on some of the mysteries in his library. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/10/Gore... #AgathaChristie #RossMacdonald #JaneLangton #WilkieCollins #PatriciaWentworth #detectivefiction

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Edward Gorey, mystery fan.

A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Read abstracts for _Clues: A Journal of Detection_ (vol 43, no 2, 2025)—theme issue on #Disability & #DetectiveFiction elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/09/Clue... #AlfredHitchcock #ThomasHarris #MaryElizabethBraddon #TV #CornellWoolrich #Victorian #LouisePenny #TanaFrench #autism #StephenKing

Cover of Clues: A Journal of Detection with photo of author Thomas Harris. Theme issue on Disability & Detective Fiction

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

30 Sept 2025 app dline for the #BSI Trust Research Fellowships for #research in the Baker St Irregulars archive (Lilly Library, IU). Open to undergrad & grad students, postdoctoral scholars & indie scholars libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-librar... #SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #detectivefiction

Sherlock Holmes (with pipe between teeth and sitting in a chair) by artist Sidney Paget.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Over on The Rap Sheet is J Kingston Pierce's extensive interview w/Steve Aldous & Gary Gillies, authors of @mcfarland.bsky.social 's _The Harry O Viewing Companion_, on the beloved PI TV series starring David Janssen & Anthony Zerbe. I acquired the bk

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

#CFP, " #Transportation & #Mobility in #CrimeFiction" (theme issue of _Clues: A Journal of Detection_, proposal deadline: 1 Mar 2026). call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/... #detectivefiction

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

"The Bookworm" by Oliver Herford. From _A Phenomenal Fauna_ by Carolyn Wells (1902).

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

As I love archival goodies, I was thrilled to see this press pass for a young Ernest Tidyman (author-screenwriter of _Shaft_; screenwriter for _The French Connection_). www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/show/archive...

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From Cleveland Dropout to Award Winning Screenwriter #506: Ernest Tidyman Papers

Ernest Tidyman was one of the top Hollywood screenwriters in the early 1970s. He won an Oscar for The French Connection and an NAACP Image Award for Shaft.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Take a peek at the goodies coming up in the fall25 catalog of @mcfarland.bsky.social . The images below are two titles I acquired mcfarlandbooks.com/flipbooks/ne... #detectivefiction #history #baseball #AgathaChristie

Image of the back ow a woman wearing a hat and holding a lantern up to an enlarged image of a book.

Cover of The Boss in American Government, with Thomas Nast's famous cartoon of a rotund Boss Tweed portrayed with a moneybag for a head.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Up, up & away ! Take 40% off #superhero titles of @mcfarland.bsky.social this month w/coupon code SUPER40 (BTW, the Superman title nabbed the coveted Oddest Title of the Yr prize in 2021 from @thebookseller.com ) mcfarlandbooks.com/.../genre/sf...

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

July $ale at Smashwords! A good time to pick up my bks at 25% off: • _In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I_ (anthology of first-person accounts by US women who served in #WWI) • _No Man's Land & Other Stories_ (mostly historical #mysteries) www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

Image: Nurse Anna Perit Rochester (right) wearing a sweater and a bracelet leans over to feed a wounded soldier.

Image of a female World War I Red Cross ambulance driver carrying a load of bedding.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Toledo Public Library has posted videos from the Apr25 #NancyDrew 95th Anniv Conv: Jennifer Fisher, ND Sleuths founder, discusses "95 Years of ND" & collecting ND; Stacia Deutsch, who has written under the ND pseudonym Carolyn Keene; Erika Head on using ND in the classrm buff.ly/QWVjDwC

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

From _The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten_ (1906). Written and illustrated by Oliver Herford. #Caturday

Pencil drawing by Oliver Herford of five images of a gray Persian kitten struggling to hold onto a branch

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My latest Jury Box column is posted at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, w/reviews of short story collections & classic reprints by Ethel Lina White, Sara Woods, the intriguing Madelon St. Denis, Miles Burton, Dorothy Cameron Disney & 19C mystery pioneer Mary Fortune buff.ly/jnG3vuX #detectivefiction

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Vera Brittain's vivid portrait in _Testament of Youth_ of Dorothy L. Sayers at Somerville College is well known, but I was delighted to see a 1915 photo from the Somerville College Library w/Sayers (standing, at far left) & Brittain (standing, at far right)

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Dorothy L Sayers and Vera Brittain at Somerville in 1915 - Somerville College Library

Many Somervillians have gone on to great things and in this photo from 1915 we see Somerville College students Dorothy L Sayers (first standing row from the front, far left) and Vera Brittain (same…

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Coming up: Online lectures on Conan Doyle hosted by the Portsmouth [UK] Library & Archives: 11 Jun: C Goldfarb, "If Arthur Conan Doyle Met #CharlesDickens " 25 Jun: J Cranfield, "Conan Doyle: Marriage & Divorce" 3 Jul: S Goldfarb, "Conan Doyle: Misquoter" ihearofsherlock.substack.com/p/worldwide-...

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Worldwide Doyle 2025 Lectures in June and July

It's time for Worldwide Doyle — the annual series of lectures hosted by the Portsmouth Library and Archives

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

$ave 25% on McFarland & Co's #military #history bks thru Father's Day. Use coupon code MILITARY25 mcfarlandbooks.com/shop/military/ #CivilWar #WW2 #WW1 #Vietnam #Korea #Afghanistan #Iraq #aviation #Navy #Marines

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Malden, MA, unveils a new mural by Fred Seager honoring the Perry Mason #mysteries of native son Erle Stanley Gardner. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/05/Gard...

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New mural on Erle Stanley Gardner, Malden, MA.

A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

"#Cat in an affectionate frame of mind." By T.W. Wood. From Charles Darwin, _On the Expression of the Emotions_. John Murray, 1872. Wellcome Collection. buff.ly/HaU4TQz #Caturday

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

@catsofyore.bsky.social Could you or some of yr followers explain to me why my #cat likes to perch on (or in) my shoes? It mystifies me. 🐈 #TortieTude

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Caldera to issue this month John Cameron's score to _The Mirror Crack'd_ (dir. Guy Hamilton, 1980, based on the #AgathaChristie novel, & featuring Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple). For more info & to listen to clips: buff.ly/tndSXjl #filmmusic #detectivefiction

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

"[B]ookselling is a marrying of minds,not only thru the ideas & emotions that bks convey to readers & sellers, but among all those literate people who make, sell & buy bks. In an unhappy world, they may well be the happiest fraternity remaining to us"-John Tebbel, "A Brief History of Amer Bkselling"

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Congrats to Nathan Ashman, Best Critical/Biographical Edgar winner, for his bk _James Sallis: A Companion to the #Mystery Fiction_ (I edit the series @mcfarland.bsky.social ). Nathan is a lecturer in crime writing @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social . Sallis wrote _Drive_ mcfarlandbooks.com/product/jame...

Photo of Nathan Ashman in a tuxedo holding his Edgar Award (an Edgar Allan Poe figurine).

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Congrats to @mcfarland.bsky.social 's Phyllis M. Betz, recipient of this year's Agatha Award for Best #Nonfiction, for her edited bk _Writing the #Cozy #Mystery : Authors' Perspectives on Their Craft_. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/writ... #detectivefiction #books

Cover of Writing the Cozy Mystery: Authors' Perspectives on Their Craft with images of a gray cat, a computer keyboard, and hands in gray fingerless gloves on the keys of the keyboard

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Frederic Hill at last night's packed event at Enoch Pratt Library. The former Baltimore Sun reporter discussed the subj of his @mcfarland.bsky.social bk, Sen Charles "Mac" Mathias (R-MD), a champion of bipartisan #foreignpolicy & #civilrights mcfarlandbooks.com/product/math... #books #politics

Author Frederic Hill, seated, in a dark gray jacket, khakis, and a light striped shirt, holding a microphone, next to a table with his book on it.

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