Historian Keith Lockhart is well into a new year, digging deep into his mound of photos, postcards and photo-based ...

The mystery and crime-writing genre set its roots in detective novels, with early hits like The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Felix in 1862 and A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur ...

Delaware County historian Keith Lockhart is working his way through quite a few postcards and photos from about a century ago that are confounding him in one way or another regarding the exact ...

When author Emily Bain Murphy visited the Missouri History Museum’s 1904 World’s Fair exhibit in April 2023, she immediately knew she had her next story. “It was the very last weekend before they ...

Standing at a podium in the Lemont Area Historical Society and Museum, which used to be a church, author Pat Camalliere recently discussed mystery and history as it relates to her writing style and ...

Forget ghosts. Forget seances. Forget mazelike passageways constructed to confuse vengeful spirits. The real mystery of the Winchester Mystery House is how it’s such a fascinating study in ...

L eslie Meier’s “Easter Egg Murder” finds both of her series protagonists, newspa per reporter Lucy Stone and empty-nest amateur sleuth Carole Capobianco, tangled in a murder investigation. Traveling ...

We’ve got a fictional small town fighting for its life, two historical novels set in the Twin Cities, and one that brings memories of the old Dayton’s department store. Several of these authors will ...