I’ve written each day about my new book The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, which contains a dozen stories about mystery and intrigue. So today I thought I would list ten of my favorite crime and mystery books of all time (both fiction and nonfiction), which I look to for inspiration.
In no particular order, they [...]

Preschool children will love guessing who the different spots belong to in this bright, sturdy lift-the-flap book from Ladybird. Read the rhyming text together and talk about what you can see in the pictures, then lift the giant flaps to reveal the animal each time.

If my story is the only story and you will be punished if you try to tell your own!
Then I have power over you! and you must be subservient unto me!
If I can read and understand the hidden meanings and you can not!
Then I have power over you! and you must be subservient unto me!
If [...]

I read it in the 70s, and I remember two things. The girl rearranged her mother’s broom closet, which was a big hit, and the finale scene was a backyard fair for a club she was in. She thought it was a terrible idea to have this carnival thing, and no one in the [...]