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    • Academy Chicago Publishers
      An imprint of the Chicago Review Press. Features a number of interesting authors, most long out of print, plus some other odds and ends, including some horror stories by Conan Doyle.
    • Crippen & Landru
      Crippen & Landru publish mystery short story collections. Of particular interest is what they call "Lost Classics," a series of anthologies of mostly uncollected stories by authors who might be enjoyed by a new generation of readers.
    • Dean Street Press
      This small British publisher has a great many classic crime books in its much broader catalog. They are bringing back many Golden Age classics by authors who deserve another chance at a new audience.
    • Felony & Mayhem
      This publisher specializes in classic mysteries, broadly defined, including newer mysteries that adhere to classic standards. They have just overhauled their website to make it much more informative and user-friendly.
    • Locked Room International
      A small press, specializing in very good English-language translations of (so far) mostly-French authors of locked room and impossible crime stories. They publish in Print-On-Demand and electronic editions.
    • Merion Press
      The Merion Press is an independent publisher of out-of-print works that were originally published over 75 years ago, but are enduring even today.
    • MysteriousPress.com
      The brainchild of editor/anthologist/author/bookstore-owner Otto Penzler, the Mysterious Press has recently returned to life and now works with Open Road Media as an electronic book publisher. It is already republishing the work of a lot of classic authors, with more books on the way.
    • Oconee Spirit Press
      A small, independent publisher committed to publishing "lively fiction, and provocative non-fiction." Most of their list covers early works by established authors writing traditional mysteries, such as Carolyn Hart and Margaret Maron.
    • Oleander Press
      This small eclectic British publisher has begun publishing a series of classic British mystery novels, primarily from the Golden Age. The series is grouped into a section of their catalogue named "London Bound," as the books are set in London.
    • Ostara Publishing
      "Ostara Publishing re-issues titles that have unjustifiably become unavailable either through the ravages of time or the forces of publishing economics. We specialise in Crime and Thriller fiction titles and our range goes from the1920s through to the 21st century. We publish thematically and currently have six series available. All our titles are published in a 'trade paperback' format and printed to order."
    • Poisoned Pen Press
      Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Poisoned Pen Press publishes a fairly wide variety of mysteries. Some are reprints; many are new, by newer authors. Their website has a great deal of information about their books and authors.

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    May 09, 2010

    Cleaning Up My Act

    I have been doing the Classic Mysteries podcast weekly for three years now. I have posted nearly 160 podcast reviews so far. The result is that the pages on this site are slowly becoming unmanageable, as that list of available podcasts on the right side of the page continues to grow. They're slow and awkward and difficult to search.

    As a result, I'm going to clean up my act a bit. I'm creating a second page for the blog, which will be linked from this page, with a full list of all the podcasts that are available for downloading. As I'll be maintaining this list separately, it will be easy to alphabetize it, so that you can easily see at a glance whether I've reviewed a favorite author or one of that author's books.

    For the last couple of years, I've been maintaining the iTunes list of podcasts at 50 - that is, only the 50 most recent reviews show up there. In the future, those 50 will be contained in the list on the right side of the page - and the most recent addition will be on top. ALL the reviews, however, will still be available for you to dowload and listen to on the new page, so they'll all remain readily available. That's around 160 so far, and the number grows weekly.

    I'm hoping this makes the site a little easier to use. I'd like for you to discover a favorite author and find out which of his/her books I've reviewed - and if I've missed one of your favorites, let me know. I'm hoping to have everything in place over the next couple of weeks, and I'll post another entry to let you know when it happens. I hope you like the change.

    As always, if you have suggestions or comments, please add them to a post! And thanks for visiting.

    Posted at 07:49 PM in General Suggestions |

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    Terry Hickman

    Sounds good! I've really been enjoying your reviews. Thanks so much for all your work!

    Posted by: Terry Hickman | May 11, 2010 at 08:47 PM

    mike tooney

    I agree with Terry. Your reviews are superior to much that is on the Internet. Keep up the good work!

    Posted by: mike tooney | May 12, 2010 at 04:09 PM

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