The Links in the Chain

(with apologies to John Rhode)

DETECTIVE FICTION

General Sites:

• A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection--excellent and thought-provoking essays devoted to the Intuitionist writers (particularly John Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen) and the Realist writers (R. Austin Freeman and Freeman Wills Crofts); an ideal introduction to the genre.
• A Bibliography
• Christian's Cool Bibliography Page--a particularly useful resource: bibliographies for many of the genre's leading writers.
• Classic Crime Fiction - a really good site with hundreds of rare dust-jackets, updated every fortnight or so
  
• Crime Fiction Database
• Funny but Fatal
• Golden Age of Detection Discussion Group--frenzied debates, furious disagreement, and heated argument are all to be found on the web's most active group.
• The Mysterious Home Page
• Mysterylist--a site at once humorous and bursting with excellent criticism, Grobius Shortling's wonderful site offers in-depth reviews of the work of John Dickson Carr, Edmund Crispin, Colin Dexter, Ian Fleming, Michael Gilbert, Cyril Hare and S.S. Van Dine. His non-detective fiction pages are very funny and thought-provoking.
• The Puzzle of Mysteries
• Speedy Mystery
• A Tangled Web
• Classic Mystery Novels Discussion Group

Authors:

• Margery Allingham
• The Margery Allingham Society
  
• The Margery Allingham Archive
• Mystery Mile
• Yahoo! Groups: allingham
  
• John Dickson Carr
• The John Dickson Carr Collector
• John Dickson Carr: The King of Mystery
• Yahoo! Clubs: Fans of John Dickson Carr
  
• G.K. Chesterton
• The American Chesterton Society
• Father Brown & Company
• G.K. Chesterton
  
• Agatha Christie
• An Agatha Christie Tribute: The English Dust Wrappers (an extremely good site, with lots of attractive pictures)
  
• Agatha Christie Unofficial Homepage
• American Tribute to Agatha Christie
• Delicious Death
• Hercule Poirot : le site!
• The Icelandic Homepage
  
• Edmund Crispin
• Edmund Crispin: the First Page
• Glimpses of the Moon (a biography of Gervase Fen)
• Peter Dickinson
• Official Web Site
  
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Granada Sherlock Holmes Episode Guide
• Sherlock Holmes Resources
  
• R. Austin Freeman
• Dr. Thorndyke's Homepage
• Yahoo! Groups: austinfreeman
  
• Reginald Hill
• Author's site
• Michael Innes
• Michael Innes (J.I.M. Stewart)
• Polecat's Lair
  
• Gladys Mitchell
• The Stone House - a Gladys Mitchell Tribute Site (Jason Hall's site is one of the very best resources available to fans of Gladys Mitchell's work on the internet: essays, reviews, images--everything the reader ever wanted, and more!)
• Gladys Mitchell - Grand Dame of Mystery's Golden Age
• Yaho
  
• Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Dorothy L. Sayers Society
  
• William Nedblake's Site
• British Drama Page
  

Bookshops & Publishers

• Abebooks
• Christopher Swatman
• Crippen & Landru--a small firm that steadily produces first-class short story collections, including Christianna Brand, Anthony Berkeley, C. Daly King, Margery Allingham, John Dickson Carr, etc.; the detective fiction addict's dream come true
• D. Ieuan Lloyd
• Gaslight Books
• House of Stratus--if Crippen & Landru is the best company for new books, House of Stratus is the best company for old books, having reprinted Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, R. Austin Freeman, Cyril Hare, Michael Gilbert and Michael Innes. Isn't it wonderful not to have to spend $6,000. for an R. Austin Freeman?
• Mystery Books
• Pandora's Books
• Reading Matters
• Richard Williams
• Zardoz Books

Personal Sites

• Mannotron

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