Episode 104: Otto Penzler and The Mysterious Bookshop

Joining us to discuss the Golden Age of Mystery is the wonderful Otto Penzler (The Mysterious Press and The Mysterious Bookshop).

Episode 99: Best Mysteries Podcast 2025 in Review

It’s our 2025 year in review. Check out the best mysteries and thrillers from 1939-1943! Listen in — and stay mysterious.

Episode 89: Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler Books

Owen Hill returns to discuss Farewell, My Lovely, where the lines between hero & villain are blurry.

Episode 88: Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

Owen Hill joins us to discuss Raymond Chandler’s beautiful and controversial Farewell, My Lovely.

Episode 86: More About The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Anthony Rizzuto returns to talk more about Raymond Chandler’s debut novel, The Big Sleep!

Episode 85: Philip Marlowe and The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Anthony Rizzuto joins us to discuss Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (and Philip Marlowe).

Episode 83: 2024 Retrospective (Mysteries, Thrillers & Detective Fiction)

Carolyn Daughters and Sarah Harrison discuss the history of mystery (1934-1939)!

Episode 73: 2025 Mystery Fiction Books

Get the scoop on all the amazing thrillers and mystery fiction books we’ll read in 2025!

Rex Stout & Nero Wolfe

Okay, so we said we love Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, but what we really meant is that we like Nero and love Archie! Rex Stout, you created a gem of a character in Archie. We talk all about it with Ira Brad Matetsky (The Wolfe Pack), who joins us on a second episode!

Nero Wolfe Mystery: The League of Frightened Men

Ira Brad Matetsky (Werowance, The Wolfe Pack) joins Sarah and Carolyn to talk all things Nero Wolfe and never once asks how in creation they’ve never read a Nero Wolfe novel before now. It’s a mystery, folks, all the more so because we LOVE Nero and Archie Goodwin!

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