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Authors Similar to Rex Stout

Rex Stout is the author of the Nero Wolfe Mystery Series, which features a very unique private detective. If you have made your way through the entire Nero Wolfe Mystery Series and find yourself missing this particular gourmand who grows his own orchids, then you might be interested in checking out one of the following authors. These authors don’t feature Nero Wolfe, but they do feature mysteries.

Authors similar to Rex Stout:

Margery Allingham: Albert Campion Mystery Series…

Edmund Crispin: Gervase Fen Mystery Series…

Earl Stanley Gardner: Perry Mason Mystery Series…

Dorothy Gilman: Mrs. Pollifax Mystery Series…

Georgette Heyer: Superintendent Hannasyde Mystery Series AND Inspector Hemingway Mystery Series…

Ngaio Marsh: Roderick Alleyn Mystery Series…

Ellery Queen: Ellery Queen Mystery Series…

Dorothy L. Sayers: Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Series…

Georges Simenon: Inspector Maigret Mystery Series…

Phoebe Atwood Taylor: Asey Mayo Mystery Series AND Leonidas Witherall Mystery Series…

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

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Four Mystery Book Authors Added to the Cozy Mystery Site: John L. Betcher, Lucille Kallen, M. Louisa Locke, & Meira Pentermann

Yes, I am finally getting some authors posted on the Cozy Mystery site! And yes, they are authors who site readers have told me about, and who the site readers think go along with the theme of the Cozy Mystery site:

John L. Betcher is a lawyer and a youth volleyball coach who writes the James Becker Mystery Series. James and his wife Elizabeth have retired to Minnesota from their high-stress jobs as a military intelligence operative (him) and a CIA code-cracker (her)…

Lucille Kallen writes the C. B. Greenfield Mystery Series which has, as its sleuths, a newspaper owner/editor who plays the cello and one of his reporters who plays the piano.

M. Louisa Locke is an ex-history professor who writes the Victorian San Francisco Mystery Series. Not only does the sleuth own a boardinghouse during this time, but, unbeknownst to others, she is a clairvoyant.

Meira Pentermann is a new author who has written a paranormal cozy mystery which takes place in Maine. The sleuth follows a silent ball of light which leads her to the diary of a girl who has been missing for over thirty years.

Simon Brett – Melita Pargeter Mystery Series

I am reading a Melita Pargeter Mystery, by Simon Brett. As I make my way through this first mystery in Brett’s six-book series, I find myself wondering: Why did it take me so long to finally read this book?!?

My bookshelf is absolutely crammed with series by authors who I really enjoy reading (Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Ellis Peters, R. D. Wingfield, Carvic/Charles/Crane, Patricia Moyes, Colin Dexter… just to mention a very few!!!) and also by authors who I REALLY want to try. As you can see, they aren’t all Cozy!

When I pick my next book to read, it is sometimes difficult to leave my favorite authors on the shelves so that I can try a new author. I’m sort of a “tried and true” type of person… no leaving the main path in lieu of a new (and possibly very exciting) road. But, every once in a while, I simply force myself to leave my safety zone and try a new author. (“Force” is probably way too strong a word!)

I have to admit that I have tried a lot of new authors who I do not like… authors who just haven’t had me wanting to continue reading after page 50. (I know I have talked about my “page 50 rule” before… If the author doesn’t hook me by then, I am simply not willing to “stay” with him/her>>> No page 51 for me!)

But, I have also tried many new (to me) authors with whom I instantly feel a connection. These are the authors who I then add to my personal “favorite authors” list.

Let if suffice in saying: Simon Brett is now on my favorite authors list! I am truly enjoying this mystery (A Nice Class of Corpse) … and cannot imagine why it has taken me so long to finally get it off of my bookshelf… Sometimes this old dog is reminded that if she tries something new… she just might join Mikey – and like it!

Thank You!

Thank you all for the well wishes and kind words. I have to admit that I usually try not to write “personal things”… other than my rants and raves, which if you have been with me even a short while, you have probably seen. Yes, there are plenty of those! (And I have another rant and rave that I will be posting real soon>>> Unfortunately, I’m never at a loss for those!)

My husband had his final doctor’s appointment this morning and was given the “100% back-to-normal” diagnosis. Whewww! Am I relieved!

Thanks, again…

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