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 ...

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.

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.

Less a traditional comic than an illustrated prose tale, Dear Detective is a 56-page graphic novella that repurposes many of Bermejo's previous Batman covers to tell a new detective noir story.

After all, these types of murder mysteries have been all the rage since the mainstream popularity of the detective mystery genre in the 1900s, where the term was first used in a 1930 novel review.