As I get prepared for my big book release, (Disk of Death will have its cover reveal this week!) I thought I would share some things that might be of interest to a reader of mystery fiction. I read somewhere that mystery fiction wasn’t even called mystery fiction until the 1930s when a crime fiction magazine changed its bent or focus and started calling its stories “mystery”. Apparently, the first mysteries were more like supernatural stories where an unknown, unseen villain was at work. The rise of mystery stories came about when the pulp magazines took the world by storm

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