Crippen & Landru Publishers

07/27/2024

Good point!

07/22/2024

I'm savoring it! The 3rd Joseph Spector book!

07/19/2024

Happy Birthday, Lizzie Borden! (born on this day in 1860)

07/11/2024

Our latest book...

07/03/2024

We’re halfway through the year, and it seems like the perfect time to give a hat-tip to an author who has helped us all along the way.
We’re talking, of course, about Edward D. Hoch and the many titles we’ve published by him over the years. We published The Killer Everyone Knew last year, and this year, we’ll publish another book in the next month or so.

He’s been so popular that he even has his own page of books on our website.
We’re having a sale to celebrate his much-appreciated part at Crippen & Landru. Edward Hoch’s clothbound books will be 20% off for July. All paperback books will be 10% off for the same period.

So, if you have never read the amazing stories of Edward D. Hoch, now is the time to pick up a book or ten. If you want to complete your collection or if you want to get some of the books in the clothbound edition (with their chapbooks) you have twenty-nine more days to do so.

Crippen & Landru publishes the very best in single-author mystery short story collection. We publish both contemporary authors and our lost classics, the best of the Golden Age Detection mysteries as well. (Be sure to check our titles in the Crippen & Landru wiki.) Crippen & Landru is celebrating it...

07/02/2024

https://mailchi.mp/f3baa37c5174/july-is-here-and-we-have-some-offers-for-you Discounts in July

06/21/2024

Many, many years ago, I edited several mystery anthologies. The first two were Canine Crimes and Canine Christmas, which are rather hard to get these days. The third was Magnolias and Mayhem, obviously with a Southern theme. Someone recommended an author for the anthology. I reached out and we talked. Toni L.P. Kelner provided the book with a memorable story (so much so that it's the chapbook that accompanies the clothbound edition of her collection.

In the following years, she became one of my favorite authors and a must-see person at conferences. When School of Hard Knox came out, I asked myself why I hadn't asked her to do a collection. So I asked, and she agreed.

The book you'll see is the result of the past twenty years, and each of these stories is a treasure. Charlaine Harris and Dana Cameron wrote the introduction.

Checkout The Skeleton Rides a Horse from Crippen & Landru.

06/20/2024

Check out our new release from Toni L.P. Kelner and Leigh Perry https://mailchi.mp/ed49600526de/our-latest-release

05/18/2024

Our second collection featuring Art Taylor is nominated for an Anthony Award for Best Collection. Check it out!

05/18/2024

One of our two Anthony Award nominations! School of Hard Knox takes Father Knox's rules and turns them upside down.

05/10/2024

Simply the best - Great news about our authors!! https://mailchi.mp/493a34049995/simply-the-best

05/09/2024

Crippen & Landru has a collection and an anthology nominated for an Anthony at this year's Bouchercon.

05/02/2024

Thanks to you, we're celebrating another Small Business Week https://mailchi.mp/130c92d49725/small-business-week-thank-you

03/27/2024

https://mailchi.mp/57f887c00286/crippen-landru-has-a-flair-for-murder “It’s a major marvel how the Lockridges can consistently turn out books that are at once delightful zany comedies, sensitive novels of moods and manners and perfectly plotted detective stories.” New York Times reviewer, Anthony Boucher

Get ready for cocktails and cats. One of the best light-hearted mystery series has a flair for murder. Richard and Frances Lockridge are best known for their married characters, Jerry and Pam North, who appeared in twenty-six novels, movies, TV, and Broadway. They also wrote books featuring Lt. Heim...

03/16/2024

Selling fast!

02/29/2024

School of Hard Knox is eligible for the Anthony for best anthology. Be sure to check out this fantastic list of authors!

02/12/2024

Check out our 30th anniversary sale. 30% off all books. https://mailchi.mp/73d70e777e18/a-week-to-celebrate

02/02/2024

Another review of two Crippen & Landru Publishers books by a wonderful blogger/reviewer.

More reviews and some other surprises to come!

This week Happiness Is a Book is observing the 30th year of Crippen & Landru, a well-known small press that specializes in single author collections of short crime fiction. Founded in 1994 by E…

02/01/2024

February 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of Crippen & Landru Publishers.

I've invited some great bloggers to participate with discussions of some of the titles published in the last 30 years.

More fun to come this month, and hopefully, an announcement on our next title, which will be the first of 2024 and the first of our next 30 years!

Let me be among the first to wish a happy thirtieth anniversary to one of our most beloved small presses, Crippen & Landru. Founded in 1994 by author and scholar Douglas Greene and his wife San…

01/26/2024

Our latest book, The Secret of the Pointed Tower (translated by Tom Mead and written by Pierre Very) is now available from our website.

A Véry Unique Collection Pierre Véry (1900-1960) spent his life as a writer. He fell into mystery writing after winning a genre award for his work. Among his many creations was Les veillées de la Tour Pointue, a quirky collection that breaks the fourth wall. The narrator, who happens to be Pierre...

01/18/2024

https://mailchi.mp/9d183bb7f35f/the-new-year-holiday-chapbook Our holiday chapbook and news...

12/31/2023

Happy New Year to you all.

12/27/2023

Word Daily thinks I don't know this word??

12/26/2023

Happy Boxing Day to one and all

12/22/2023

Books make great presents!

12/17/2023

So true!

12/16/2023

Read today!

12/15/2023

"Crippen & Landru publishes only short-story collections, but it does this exceedingly well."

Washington Post, today. :)

12/15/2023

New books for the holidays! https://mailchi.mp/6033d18d3705/new-books-for-the-holidays

11/21/2023

Black Friday Sale - 25% off https://mailchi.mp/2d0a3ec5f497/black-friday-25-off