LONDON MYSTERIES I: Mystery Readers Journal (40:4)

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford

--Samuel Johnson.

Mystery Readers Journal: London Mysteries I (40:4)  is available as a PDF and Hardcopy. In this issue you’ll find author essays, reviews, and articles for mysteries set in London. 

We had so many articles and reviews that we had to divide the material into two issues. Mystery Readers Journal: London Mysteries II will be our Spring issue for 2025 (41:1). 

Subscribe now in order to be sure to receive a copy of London Mysteries II--and the other three issues for 2025: Themes: London II; Retail Sales; Northern California; Cross-Genre Mysteries. 

If you're a PDF subscriber, you should receive download instructions shortly. Hard copy subscription copies should be received by the end of the week. International subscribers will receive their issues within two weeks. 

PDF Contributor copies will go out in the next few days. 

Contributors: If you don't see your article or review in this issue, it will be in London Mysteries II (Spring 2025, 41:1). 

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this amazing issue.

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FYI: We had two other themed issues on London in 2011. Both are available as PDFs. 

London Mysteries I: Volume 27:1 (2011) 

 and 

London Mysteries II: Volume 27:2 (2011) 

I know you’ll order them all in order to find new books and authors to expand your reading! 

Volume 40, No. 4, Winter 2024

Buy this back issue! Available in hardcopy or as a downloadable PDF.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

• From Londinium to London: A City with a Criminal History by Alan Cassady-Bishop
• Reporting from London, WWII by Rona Bell
• Bow Street Runners: London’s First Police Force by Aubrey Nye Hamilton
• London Between the Wars by G.M. Malliet
• London’s Finest: Magic, Spies and the Arcane by Ayo Onatade
• Recollections of a London Detective by Ashley Bowden

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• Celebrating London and a Love of Shakespeare by Cathy Ace
• London, a Character on Its Own by S. L. Beaumont
• The Kamil Rahman Series and East London by Ajay Chowdhury
• Gertrude Bell at Whitehall by Michael Cooper
• Gemma Doyle Follows the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes Through London by Vicki Delaney
• Ruined Abbey—More History Than I Ever Expected! by Anne Emery
• Weaving a Tale From Those Childhood Memories of London by Elizabeth Elwood
• London: The Perfect Backdrop for the Crime Writer by David Fennell
• An American Lost in London by Alan Gordon, aka Allison Montclair
• My London: Real and Imagined by Narrelle M. Harris
• London: Spies and Titles by Gay Toltl Kinman
• All Roads Lead From London by Christopher Huang
• Henry von Stray: John McAleer’s Classic London Detective by Andrew McAleer
• The Wobble in the Aggie by Peter Lovesey
• The Game’s Afoot! Writing the Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Ken Pelham
• Mind the Killer by Gary Powell
• Wrong Turn—Write Path by Joanna Campbell Slan
• Mr. Campion’s London by Mike Ripley
• The Walking Guide Wars by Wendall Thomas
• Writing a Sherlockian Pastiche Set in Victorian London by Jeri Westerson
• London for Everyone by Marty Wingate

COLUMNS

• Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews
• True Crime: The London Barrister & His Fictional Counterpart by Cathy Pickens
• The Law in London—Part 2 by Jim Doherty
• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph

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