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 98: Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich

Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich (It Had to Be Murder), published in 1942, is an exceptional noir tale that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s film.

Episode 97: CW Grafton (Mary Roberts Rinehart Mystery Contest Winner)

Have you started The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope (1943) yet? Let’s just say that Sue Grafton wasn’t the only major talent in that family.

Episode 96: The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope by CW Grafton

The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope (1943) is a GREAT crime thriller by Sue Grafton’s father, C.W. Grafton. Oh, and we love Gil Henry.

Episode 95: Good Mystery Podcast 2026 Reading List

Introducing our 2026 reading list! The best mysteries from 1943-1948! Check it out!

Episode 94: Laura by Vera Caspary

Laura by Vera Caspary (1943) is a cornerstone of noir fiction and a STUNNING 1940s thriller!

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 87: Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler & Arvind Ethan David

Arvind joins us to discuss his graphic novel Trouble Is My Business (Raymond Chandler).

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!