Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (1990) Mosley’s first published novel to feature his legendary detective, Easy Rawlins, opens in Los Angeles after the end of World War II.

In the new novel Fair Play, Abigail is hosting a murder mystery party at an Irish country house on New Year's Eve. She's also in deep mourning for her brother. The story's opening reads as a ...

Christopher Banks, the hero-narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel, "When We Were Orphans," is a 1930s London detective famous for his ability to solve cases with the slimmest of clues.