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/
Dan Stashower highlighted Eliot Ness & the Untouchables game as "the worst board game ever created" 🙂
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Dan Stashower highlighted Eliot Ness & the Untouchables game as "the worst board game ever created" 🙂
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....
Harriet Prescott Spofford image below. For those who would like to read her #mystery stories:
-- "In a Cellar": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/510
-- "Mr. Furbush": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/407
-- "In the Maguerriwock": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/521
-- "In a Cellar": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/510
-- "Mr. Furbush": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/407
-- "In the Maguerriwock": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/521
October 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Harriet Prescott Spofford image below. For those who would like to read her #mystery stories:
-- "In a Cellar": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/510
-- "Mr. Furbush": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/407
-- "In the Maguerriwock": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/521
-- "In a Cellar": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/510
-- "Mr. Furbush": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/407
-- "In the Maguerriwock": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/521
I reviewed for EQMM 2 bks (orig publ in 1930s magazines) by Madelon St. Denis w/an early female PI: _The Hollow Tree Mystery_ & _The Jekyll-Hyde Murder Case_ www.coachwhipbooks.com/mystery-auth...
October 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I reviewed for EQMM 2 bks (orig publ in 1930s magazines) by Madelon St. Denis w/an early female PI: _The Hollow Tree Mystery_ & _The Jekyll-Hyde Murder Case_ www.coachwhipbooks.com/mystery-auth...
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
Now on $ale at @mcfarland.bsky.social ! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/zasu...
September 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Now on $ale at @mcfarland.bsky.social ! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/zasu...
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
She was a favorite author of the Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley. She wrote beautifully (we lost her too soon to an aortic aneurysm).
September 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
She was a favorite author of the Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley. She wrote beautifully (we lost her too soon to an aortic aneurysm).
. @deanstpress.bsky.social has reprinted Wentworth's non-Miss Silver bks. www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/pages/author...
September 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
. @deanstpress.bsky.social has reprinted Wentworth's non-Miss Silver bks. www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/pages/author...
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
Marsh's fiance died in #WW1. mcfarlandbooks.com/series/mcfar...
August 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Marsh's fiance died in #WW1. mcfarlandbooks.com/series/mcfar...
Hope you have read Emma Lathen.
August 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Hope you have read Emma Lathen.
Are you familiar w/Noel Streatfeild's pseudonym, Susan Scarlett? Bks now back in print thanks to @deanstpress.bsky.social . www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/pages/author...
August 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Are you familiar w/Noel Streatfeild's pseudonym, Susan Scarlett? Bks now back in print thanks to @deanstpress.bsky.social . www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/pages/author...
#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).
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August 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Here's a fun take on Hopper's "Nighthawks" for _The Post-Zombie: Essays on the Evolving Undead_. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
August 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Here's a fun take on Hopper's "Nighthawks" for _The Post-Zombie: Essays on the Evolving Undead_. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
He might enjoy Isaac Asimov's sci-fi mysteries (starting w/The Caves of Steel) & Jack Finney's classic Time and Again). For historical detective stories, Walter Satterthwait's trilogy (Escapade, Masquerade, Cavalcade) & his standalone Wilde West (w/Oscar Wilde & Doc Holliday) are fun.
August 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
He might enjoy Isaac Asimov's sci-fi mysteries (starting w/The Caves of Steel) & Jack Finney's classic Time and Again). For historical detective stories, Walter Satterthwait's trilogy (Escapade, Masquerade, Cavalcade) & his standalone Wilde West (w/Oscar Wilde & Doc Holliday) are fun.
You also might enjoy (although they are not historical) Joanne Dobson's series w/English prof Karen Pelletier, all w/literary themes (e.g., _Cold and Pure and Very Dead_ is based on Grace Metalious' _Peyton Place_). Dobson is prof emerita, Fordham.
August 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
You also might enjoy (although they are not historical) Joanne Dobson's series w/English prof Karen Pelletier, all w/literary themes (e.g., _Cold and Pure and Very Dead_ is based on Grace Metalious' _Peyton Place_). Dobson is prof emerita, Fordham.
One of my favorite authors is K.K. Beck. She's written both contemporary & historical mysteries. The latter includes her 3-book 1920s series _Death in a Deck Chair_, _Murder in a Mummy Case_ & _Peril Under the Palms_ & the standalone _Young Mrs. Cavendish & The Kaiser's Men_
August 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
One of my favorite authors is K.K. Beck. She's written both contemporary & historical mysteries. The latter includes her 3-book 1920s series _Death in a Deck Chair_, _Murder in a Mummy Case_ & _Peril Under the Palms_ & the standalone _Young Mrs. Cavendish & The Kaiser's Men_
I concur w/BargainSleuth re Vicky Bliss but need to mention the 6-ft PI Carlotta Carlyle created by Linda Barnes.
August 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I concur w/BargainSleuth re Vicky Bliss but need to mention the 6-ft PI Carlotta Carlyle created by Linda Barnes.
Check out @mcfarland.bsky.social 's recent book ed. by Rebecca Josephy, _Magic, Mystery and #DetectiveFiction : Essays on Intersecting Modes of Mystery_ (here's a review from _Mythlore_: dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol...)
August 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Check out @mcfarland.bsky.social 's recent book ed. by Rebecca Josephy, _Magic, Mystery and #DetectiveFiction : Essays on Intersecting Modes of Mystery_ (here's a review from _Mythlore_: dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol...)
From the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation website. www.ejkf.org/books-illust...
August 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
From the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation website. www.ejkf.org/books-illust...