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Senior Sleuths Theme Mysteries : A – F

Senior Sleuths… hmm… Just how old does a senior sleuth have to be? Does that mean that the sleuth has to be ten years my senior, or my mother’s senior? As someone who not yet qualifies for the House of Pancakes’ senior discount, but who has a lot of friends who do, I can’t quite decide what the age should be. So, I am just going to leave it to the cozy mystery site readers to decide if the following series qualify as senior sleuths or not. It’s all in the eye of the beholder…

Peter E. Abresch: James P. Dandy Elderhostel Mystery Series

Margot Arnold:  Penny Spring & Sir Toby Glendower Series

Marian Babson:  Trixie Dolan & Evangeline Sinclair Series

Donald Bain:  Jessica Fletcher Series

Deb Baker:  Yooper Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton:  Agatha Raisin Series

Mike Befeler:  Paul Jacobson Geezer-Lit Mystery Series

Nancy Bell:  Biggie Weatherford Series

Mary A. Berger: Mattie Mitchell Mystery Series

D. B. Borton:  Cat Caliban Series

Allen B. Boyer: Bess Bullock Retirement Home Mystery Series

Simon Brett:  Fethering Mystery Series & Melita Pargeter Series

Emily Brightwell:  Mrs. Jeffries Series

Rita Mae Brown:  Sister Jane Arnold Mystery Series

Dorothy Cannell:  Ellie Haskell Series (Hyacinth &  Primrose)

Heron Carvic:  Miss Emily D. Seeton Series

Hampton Charles:  Miss Emily D. Seeton Series

Nora Charles:  Kate Kennedy Mystery Series

Agatha Christie:  Miss Marple Series

Joyce Christmas:  Betty Trenka Mystery Series

Ann Cleeves:  George and Molly Palmer-Jones Series

Barbara Colley: Charlotte LaRue Msytery Series

B. Comfort:  Tish McWhinny Series

Lesley Cookman: Libby Sarjeant Mystery Series

Alisa Craig: Grub-and-Stakers Series

Elizabeth Spann Craig (aka Riley Adams): Myrtle Clover Mystery Series

Hamilton Crane:  Miss Emily D. Seeton Series

Jeanne M. Dams:  Dorothy Martin Mystery Series

Shirley Damsgaard:  Ophelia & Abby Mystery Series

Jana DeLeon:  Miss Fortune Mystery Series

Nora DeLoach:  Mama Detective Agency Series

Hildegarde Dolson:  Ramsdale & McDougal Series

William Doonan:  Henry Graves Mystery Series

Carola Dunn: Cornish Mystery Series

K.J. Emrick: Cookie and Cream Mystery Series

Monica Ferris:  Needlecraft Mystery Series

Christopher Fowler: Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery Series

Shelley Freydont:  Lindy Haggerty Series

Senior Sleuths by Authors beginning with G – P

Senior Sleuth by Authors beginning with Q – W

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Authors Similar to Agatha Christie : If You’ve Run Out of Agatha Christie Mysteries:

This morning I received a letter asking me for some advice. The writer wanted to know which authors she could try who fall in the Agatha Christie “category” (my word, not hers.) I thought that I would write a blog addressing this inquiry, since I have been asked this very same question by several people.

I know that this is presumptuous, but I am guessing that most of us got to be hard-core cozy mystery buffs after we read our first Agatha Christie novel. And, most of us have probably made our way through so many of the Christie novels that we can’t remember which is which. Once we have had our Christie fill, there are other authors we can turn to (thank goodness!) The following is a list of authors who I would consider trying out if I were just starting on the cozy mystery route. This is not to say that they are Agatha imitators… by any means! They are just the ones who I would recommend if I really had a love of all things Christie…

My Author Picks:

Ngaio Marsh:  Inspector Roderick Alleyn Mystery Series

Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael Mystery Series

Ruth Rendell:  Inspector Wexford Mystery Series

(I have added a lot of authors to this list because they have been recommended by Cozy Mystery site readers as belonging on this Authors Similar to Agatha Christie list. I have not read several of these recommended authors. At first I didn’t know whether to add them to my list or not, since I couldn’t vouch for them. Eventually I added the authors, and hope they truly belong on this list!)

Other People’s Picks for Authors similar to Agatha Christie:

Cathy Ace: Cait Morgan Mystery Series

Catherine Aird:  Inspector Sloan Mystery Series

Margery Allingham:  Albert Campion Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton:  Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series AND Agatha Raisin Mystery Series

Elizabeth Daly: Henry Gamadge Mystery Series

John Dickson Carr (aka Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, & Roger Fairbairn): Gideon Fell Mystery Series AND Henri Bencolin Mystery Series

Mary Higgins Clark: Stand Alone mysteries

Deborah Crombie:  Kincaid & James Mystery Series

Carola Dunn:  Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series

Marjorie Eccles:  Gil Mayo Mystery Series

Kathy Lynn Emerson:  Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery Series

E. X. Ferrars:  Andrew Basnett Mystery Series, Toby Dyke Mystery Series, & Freer Mystery Series

Anthea Fraser:  David Webb & Ken Jackson Mystery Series

Dorothy Gilman:  Mrs. Pollifax Mystery Series

Caroline Graham: Midsomer Murder Mystery Series

Ann Granger: Markby and Mitchell Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher Mystery Series

Martha Grimes:  Jury & Plant Mystery Series

Georgette Heyer: Superintendent Hannasyde Mystery Series

Hazel Holt: Mrs. Malory Mystery Series

P. D. James:  Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series

M.M. Kaye: Death in ***** Mystery Series

Jill McGown:  Lloyd & Hill Mystery Series

Gladys Mitchell:  Mrs. Bradley Mystery Series

Stuart Palmer: Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series

Louise Penny: Three Pines Mystery Series

Dorothy L. Sayers:  Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Series

Georges Simenon:  Inspector Maigret Mystery Series

Dorothy Simpson:  Inspector Luke Thanet Mystery Series

Rex Stout:  Nero Wolfe Mystery Series

Josephine Tey: Scotland Yard Inspector Mystery Alan Grant

Patricia Wentworth:  Miss Maud Silver Mystery Series

Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to Agatha Christie, and I will add them to the list.

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March 2008 Mystery New Releases:

Sarah Atwell: Through a Glass, Deadly (This will be the first in the NEW Glassblowing Mystery Series.)

Deb Baker: Dolly Departed (This will be the third in the Dolls to Die For Mystery Series.)

Rhys Bowen: Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (This will be the seventh in the Molly Murphy, Irish Immigrant Mystery Series.)

Laura Childs: The Silver Needle Murder (This will be the ninth in the Theodosia Browning Mystery Series.)

Carol Higgins Clark: Zapped (This will be the sixteenth in the Regan Reilly Mystery Series.)

Mary Higgins Clark: Where Are You Now? (This will be a stand-alone.)

Susan Conant & Jessica Conant-Park: Turn Up the Heat (This will be the third in the Gourmet Girl Mystery Series.)

Mary Daheim: The Alpine Traitor (This will be the twentieth in the Emma Lord (Alpine) Mystery Series… actually out Feb. 26)

Hannah Dennison: A Vicky Hill Exclusive! (This will be first in the NEW Vicky Hill Mystery Series.)

Linda Fairstein: Killer Heat (This will be the tenth in the Alex Cooper Mystery Series.)

Jerrilyn Farmer: Desperately Seeking Sushi (This will be the 8th in the Madeline Bean Culinary Mystery Series.)

Carolyn G. Hart: Death Walked In (This will be the eighteenth in the Death on Demand Mystery Series.)

Jonathan Kellerman: Compulsion (This will be the 22nd in the Alex Delaware Mystery Series.)

Victoria Laurie: Demons Are a Ghoul’s Best Friend (This will the the second in the Ghost Hunter Mystery Series.)

Laura Lippman: Another Thing to Fall (This will be tenth in the Tess Monaghan Mystery Series.)

Nancy Martin: Murder Melts in Your Mouth (This will by the seventh in the Blackbird Sisters Mystery Series.)

Louise Penny: The Cruelest Month (This will be the third in the Three Pines Mystery Series.)

Anne Perry: Buckingham Palace Gardens (This will be the twenty sixth in the Thomas & Charlotte Pitt Mystery Series.)

Sharon Short: Tie Dyed and Dead (This will be the sixth in the Stain-Busting Mystery Series… actually out Feb. 26)

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New Authors to the Cozy Mystery Site, Pt. 2…

I have added more authors to the site… and I want you all to know, I really appreciate your recommendations. This time I am adding eight new authors, and also, should say that two of the authors have been added to the "cat cozy mystery" list, and one of them to the "librarian cozy" list.

Fran Stewart writes the Biscuit McKee and Marmalade Mystery Series, which features a librarian and her cat. (So, Stewart has been added to both the cat and librarian cozy lists.)

Clea Simon writes a series (the Theda Krakow Mystery Series) which features a music writer with her cat (muse)… Musetta. (So, Simon has been added to the cat cozy list.)

Marlys Millhiser writes the Charlie Greene Mystery Series… Charlie is a literary agent in California who is also a very capable sleuth.

The Three Dirty Women Landscaping, Inc Series is written by Julie Wray Herman. (Don’t you just love the name of the series?)

The Tracy Eaton Mystery Series is written by Kris Neri who, interestingly, owns a bookstore in Arizona.

When Fiona Mountain came up with her series name that has a sleuth who happens to be a genealogist, she came up with a great idea: the Natasha Blake Ancestor Detective Mystery Series.

The Olivia Brown Mystery Series and the Smith & Wetzon Mystery Series (that’s right, not Smith & Wesson!) is written by Annette Meyers. (Meyers is also half of the Maan Meyers duo… her husband Martin being the other half… who write the Dutchman Historical Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Ironside (aka Lady Catherine Manning) has written five stand-alone mystery novels.

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