Elizabeth Foxwell
@elizfoxwell.bsky.social
Editor at McFarland & Co. | Managing Editor, Clues: A Journal of Detection | Editor, McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction | Also writes on #WW1 women | elizabethfoxwell.com | https://americanwomeninwwi.wordpress.com/
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Read abstracts for _Clues: A Journal of Detection_ (vol 43, no 2, 2025)—theme issue on #Disability & #DetectiveFiction elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/09/Clue... #AlfredHitchcock #ThomasHarris #MaryElizabethBraddon #TV #CornellWoolrich #Victorian #LouisePenny #TanaFrench #autism #StephenKing
The @mcfarland.bsky.social holiday $ale is on—take 35% off w/coupon code HOLIDAY25 till Dec 1 (drops to 25% off after this date). Intriguing new bk: American Magdalene, in which Brenda S Tolian unmasks the author behind a 1919 acct of a sex wker in the US & Canada mcfarlandbooks.com/product/amer...
American Magdalene - McFarland
American Magdalene The Life Behind the Scandalous Book Madeleine: An Autobiography Brenda S. Tolian 978-1-4766-9801-4 978-1-4766-5792-9
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November 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The @mcfarland.bsky.social holiday $ale is on—take 35% off w/coupon code HOLIDAY25 till Dec 1 (drops to 25% off after this date). Intriguing new bk: American Magdalene, in which Brenda S Tolian unmasks the author behind a 1919 acct of a sex wker in the US & Canada mcfarlandbooks.com/product/amer...
YMCA entertainer Ruth Charlotte Bush died at age 29 due to poison gas exposure during her #WW1 svc. writing in 1918, “…I wouldn’t have missed these experiences for anything any one could offer me. I know that when all is over I shall be a better, stronger, truer girl” buff.ly/ZNkZut5
November 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
YMCA entertainer Ruth Charlotte Bush died at age 29 due to poison gas exposure during her #WW1 svc. writing in 1918, “…I wouldn’t have missed these experiences for anything any one could offer me. I know that when all is over I shall be a better, stronger, truer girl” buff.ly/ZNkZut5
Article by U-FL law prof @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social on often forgotten early female US judges—some obtaining their positions yrs before the 19th amendment. Image: suffragist & lawyer Catharine Waugh McCulloch, who was elected in 1907 as a justice of the peace in IL. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Article by U-FL law prof @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social on often forgotten early female US judges—some obtaining their positions yrs before the 19th amendment. Image: suffragist & lawyer Catharine Waugh McCulloch, who was elected in 1907 as a justice of the peace in IL. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I recently visited the Edward Gorey House on Cape Cod and learned that Gorey was a devoted #mystery fan. I blogged on some of the mysteries in his library. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/10/Gore... #AgathaChristie #RossMacdonald #JaneLangton #WilkieCollins #PatriciaWentworth #detectivefiction
Edward Gorey, mystery fan.
A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.
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October 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I recently visited the Edward Gorey House on Cape Cod and learned that Gorey was a devoted #mystery fan. I blogged on some of the mysteries in his library. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/10/Gore... #AgathaChristie #RossMacdonald #JaneLangton #WilkieCollins #PatriciaWentworth #detectivefiction
Read abstracts for _Clues: A Journal of Detection_ (vol 43, no 2, 2025)—theme issue on #Disability & #DetectiveFiction elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/09/Clue... #AlfredHitchcock #ThomasHarris #MaryElizabethBraddon #TV #CornellWoolrich #Victorian #LouisePenny #TanaFrench #autism #StephenKing
September 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Read abstracts for _Clues: A Journal of Detection_ (vol 43, no 2, 2025)—theme issue on #Disability & #DetectiveFiction elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/09/Clue... #AlfredHitchcock #ThomasHarris #MaryElizabethBraddon #TV #CornellWoolrich #Victorian #LouisePenny #TanaFrench #autism #StephenKing
30 Sept 2025 app dline for the #BSI Trust Research Fellowships for #research in the Baker St Irregulars archive (Lilly Library, IU). Open to undergrad & grad students, postdoctoral scholars & indie scholars libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-librar... #SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #detectivefiction
September 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
30 Sept 2025 app dline for the #BSI Trust Research Fellowships for #research in the Baker St Irregulars archive (Lilly Library, IU). Open to undergrad & grad students, postdoctoral scholars & indie scholars libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-librar... #SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #detectivefiction
For Ichabod Crane fans—new from @mcfarland.bsky.social . mcfarlandbooks.com/product/slee... #WashingtonIrving #SleepyHollow #Halloween #literature
September 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
For Ichabod Crane fans—new from @mcfarland.bsky.social . mcfarlandbooks.com/product/slee... #WashingtonIrving #SleepyHollow #Halloween #literature
Over on The Rap Sheet is J Kingston Pierce's extensive interview w/Steve Aldous & Gary Gillies, authors of @mcfarland.bsky.social 's _The Harry O Viewing Companion_, on the beloved PI TV series starring David Janssen & Anthony Zerbe. I acquired the bk
The Rap Sheet's J. Kingston Pierce talks with Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies about their excellent and comprehensive work, "The Harry O Viewing Companion."
The Facts in the Case of “Harry O”
Almost 51 years have passed now since actor David Janssen ’s fourth and final TV series, the private-eye drama Harry O , debuted on America’...
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August 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Over on The Rap Sheet is J Kingston Pierce's extensive interview w/Steve Aldous & Gary Gillies, authors of @mcfarland.bsky.social 's _The Harry O Viewing Companion_, on the beloved PI TV series starring David Janssen & Anthony Zerbe. I acquired the bk
#CFP, " #Transportation & #Mobility in #CrimeFiction" (theme issue of _Clues: A Journal of Detection_, proposal deadline: 1 Mar 2026). call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/... #detectivefiction
August 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
#CFP, " #Transportation & #Mobility in #CrimeFiction" (theme issue of _Clues: A Journal of Detection_, proposal deadline: 1 Mar 2026). call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/... #detectivefiction
"The Bookworm" by Oliver Herford. From _A Phenomenal Fauna_ by Carolyn Wells (1902).
August 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
"The Bookworm" by Oliver Herford. From _A Phenomenal Fauna_ by Carolyn Wells (1902).
As I love archival goodies, I was thrilled to see this press pass for a young Ernest Tidyman (author-screenwriter of _Shaft_; screenwriter for _The French Connection_). www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/show/archive...
From Cleveland Dropout to Award Winning Screenwriter #506: Ernest Tidyman Papers
Ernest Tidyman was one of the top Hollywood screenwriters in the early 1970s. He won an Oscar for The French Connection and an NAACP Image Award for Shaft.
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August 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
As I love archival goodies, I was thrilled to see this press pass for a young Ernest Tidyman (author-screenwriter of _Shaft_; screenwriter for _The French Connection_). www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/show/archive...
Good news for #JohnBuchan fans (published by @britishlibrary.bsky.social ).
James Machin (@jfmachin.bsky.social)
My copies have arrived and they are beautiful! Holographic foil! Thistle motif endpapers! Not to mention crammed with Buchan's superbly unsettling tales.
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July 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Good news for #JohnBuchan fans (published by @britishlibrary.bsky.social ).
Take a peek at the goodies coming up in the fall25 catalog of @mcfarland.bsky.social . The images below are two titles I acquired mcfarlandbooks.com/flipbooks/ne... #detectivefiction #history #baseball #AgathaChristie
July 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Take a peek at the goodies coming up in the fall25 catalog of @mcfarland.bsky.social . The images below are two titles I acquired mcfarlandbooks.com/flipbooks/ne... #detectivefiction #history #baseball #AgathaChristie
July 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Up, up & away ! Take 40% off #superhero titles of @mcfarland.bsky.social this month w/coupon code SUPER40 (BTW, the Superman title nabbed the coveted Oddest Title of the Yr prize in 2021 from @thebookseller.com )
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July 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Up, up & away ! Take 40% off #superhero titles of @mcfarland.bsky.social this month w/coupon code SUPER40 (BTW, the Superman title nabbed the coveted Oddest Title of the Yr prize in 2021 from @thebookseller.com )
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July $ale at Smashwords! A good time to pick up my bks at 25% off:
• _In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I_ (anthology of first-person accounts by US women who served in #WWI)
• _No Man's Land & Other Stories_ (mostly historical #mysteries)
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• _In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I_ (anthology of first-person accounts by US women who served in #WWI)
• _No Man's Land & Other Stories_ (mostly historical #mysteries)
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July 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
July $ale at Smashwords! A good time to pick up my bks at 25% off:
• _In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I_ (anthology of first-person accounts by US women who served in #WWI)
• _No Man's Land & Other Stories_ (mostly historical #mysteries)
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• _In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I_ (anthology of first-person accounts by US women who served in #WWI)
• _No Man's Land & Other Stories_ (mostly historical #mysteries)
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Toledo Public Library has posted videos from the Apr25 #NancyDrew 95th Anniv Conv: Jennifer Fisher, ND Sleuths founder, discusses "95 Years of ND" & collecting ND; Stacia Deutsch, who has written under the ND pseudonym Carolyn Keene; Erika Head on using ND in the classrm buff.ly/QWVjDwC
June 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Toledo Public Library has posted videos from the Apr25 #NancyDrew 95th Anniv Conv: Jennifer Fisher, ND Sleuths founder, discusses "95 Years of ND" & collecting ND; Stacia Deutsch, who has written under the ND pseudonym Carolyn Keene; Erika Head on using ND in the classrm buff.ly/QWVjDwC
My latest Jury Box column is posted at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, w/reviews of short story collections & classic reprints by Ethel Lina White, Sara Woods, the intriguing Madelon St. Denis, Miles Burton, Dorothy Cameron Disney & 19C mystery pioneer Mary Fortune buff.ly/jnG3vuX #detectivefiction
June 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
My latest Jury Box column is posted at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, w/reviews of short story collections & classic reprints by Ethel Lina White, Sara Woods, the intriguing Madelon St. Denis, Miles Burton, Dorothy Cameron Disney & 19C mystery pioneer Mary Fortune buff.ly/jnG3vuX #detectivefiction
Vera Brittain's vivid portrait in _Testament of Youth_ of Dorothy L. Sayers at Somerville College is well known, but I was delighted to see a 1915 photo from the Somerville College Library w/Sayers (standing, at far left) & Brittain (standing, at far right)
Dorothy L Sayers and Vera Brittain at Somerville in 1915 - Somerville College Library
Many Somervillians have gone on to great things and in this photo from 1915 we see Somerville College students Dorothy L Sayers (first standing row from the front, far left) and Vera Brittain (same…
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June 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Vera Brittain's vivid portrait in _Testament of Youth_ of Dorothy L. Sayers at Somerville College is well known, but I was delighted to see a 1915 photo from the Somerville College Library w/Sayers (standing, at far left) & Brittain (standing, at far right)
Coming up: Online lectures on Conan Doyle hosted by the Portsmouth [UK] Library & Archives:
11 Jun: C Goldfarb, "If Arthur Conan Doyle Met #CharlesDickens "
25 Jun: J Cranfield, "Conan Doyle: Marriage & Divorce"
3 Jul: S Goldfarb, "Conan Doyle: Misquoter" ihearofsherlock.substack.com/p/worldwide-...
11 Jun: C Goldfarb, "If Arthur Conan Doyle Met #CharlesDickens "
25 Jun: J Cranfield, "Conan Doyle: Marriage & Divorce"
3 Jul: S Goldfarb, "Conan Doyle: Misquoter" ihearofsherlock.substack.com/p/worldwide-...
Worldwide Doyle 2025 Lectures in June and July
It's time for Worldwide Doyle — the annual series of lectures hosted by the Portsmouth Library and Archives
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June 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Coming up: Online lectures on Conan Doyle hosted by the Portsmouth [UK] Library & Archives:
11 Jun: C Goldfarb, "If Arthur Conan Doyle Met #CharlesDickens "
25 Jun: J Cranfield, "Conan Doyle: Marriage & Divorce"
3 Jul: S Goldfarb, "Conan Doyle: Misquoter" ihearofsherlock.substack.com/p/worldwide-...
11 Jun: C Goldfarb, "If Arthur Conan Doyle Met #CharlesDickens "
25 Jun: J Cranfield, "Conan Doyle: Marriage & Divorce"
3 Jul: S Goldfarb, "Conan Doyle: Misquoter" ihearofsherlock.substack.com/p/worldwide-...
Malden, MA, unveils a new mural by Fred Seager honoring the Perry Mason #mysteries of native son Erle Stanley Gardner. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/05/Gard...
New mural on Erle Stanley Gardner, Malden, MA.
A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.
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May 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Malden, MA, unveils a new mural by Fred Seager honoring the Perry Mason #mysteries of native son Erle Stanley Gardner. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/05/Gard...
"#Cat in an affectionate frame of mind." By T.W. Wood. From Charles Darwin, _On the Expression of the Emotions_. John Murray, 1872. Wellcome Collection. buff.ly/HaU4TQz #Caturday
May 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
"#Cat in an affectionate frame of mind." By T.W. Wood. From Charles Darwin, _On the Expression of the Emotions_. John Murray, 1872. Wellcome Collection. buff.ly/HaU4TQz #Caturday
Visited the main branch of the Toledo Public Library yesterday & got to see the Jennifer Fisher Nancy Drew Collection which contains more than 5,000 items. Books & memorabilia, including board games, movie promos, membership cards, a terrifying Halloween mask... really fun to explore.
May 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM