Author Archives: Neil

For the first time, I am posting something that is not exclusively about Queen. Instead, I’ll briefly talk about one of my favourite subgenres and list what I consider to be the five best books belonging to it.   The title clearly gives it away – it’s the serial-killer mystery. The Golden Age produced plenty of great booksContinue reading “Top 5 GA serial-killer mysteries”

I’m sure everybody reading this is has already heard of the highly regarded blogger JJ of The Invisible Event, so I won’t bother introducing him. And I think most of you will agree that his opinions can be a bit……err……controversial at times. As anybody who has ever read his site will doubtless know, he famously doesn’t like Ellery Queen very much.  About two and a half years ago, shortlyContinue reading “The Gauntlet is thrown for The French Powder Mystery (1930) — A rebuttal to JJ”

So let’s get straight into this. As you’re probably aware of, Ellery Queen is rather famous for changing his/their style of writing quite often. For this reason, their oeuvre is often divided into three or four periods which vastly differ from each other. Francis M. Nevins, I believe, was the first to come up withContinue reading “Ranking Period One Queen”

My Name is Neil and I’ve always been a huge fan of GAD Fiction so I am starting this blog to record my feelings towards various books, authors, detectives, tropes etc. that pertain to this wonderful but sadly largely forgotten genre. As you might have guessed by now, this blog will focus on one authorContinue reading “Introduction”