The DWaM Top 5

One of the most influential authors to my writing, at least in recent years, is an author whose name I don’t know. You won’t find him at your local Barnes and Noble or on Goodreads, and all of his work is available for free. Though he has called himself a mere amateur in the past,

The Big Bow Mystery

I previously talked about The Mystery of the Yellow Room on this blog, and today’s topic is a similar story I came across just after finishing that one. Both books have a lot in common—both feature a locked room murder, involve a rivalry between two central detectives, and were published before my grandparents were born.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux’s The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the oldest locked room mystery novels, and one of the oldest mysteries in general. Released in 1908, the novel has been repeatedly praised by mystery authors—and even their characters! Agatha Cristie’s Hercule Poirot and John Dickson Carr’s Dr. Gideon Fell both cite the Yellow