Welcome to Moonstone Press
Moonstone Press reprints detective and crime novels (as well as humorous fiction) from the end of WWI to the early 1960s. We publish books that are well-written and entertaining, and reintroduce them to a wider audience.
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In Memory of Charles
Charles, according to all accounts, had clearly been boiling up to be murdered. Charles Courtley was a difficult man. Prone to violent outbursts and a bully to his wife and daughters, he had uprooted his unhappy family from London to a country house in remote East Anglia. Wealthy and in...
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A Case of Books
In the beginning was the Word— When Theodore Terhune’s wealthy client Arthur Harrison is found stabbed and his library ransacked, the police suspect the murderer was looking for a book. Harrison collected rare early printed books called incunabula, but as the provenance of such title...
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Five to Five
Much had been risked, and the murderer had escaped by such a rare combination of chances. When elderly, unpleasant Simon Ewing was bludgeoned in his maisonette, and a stranger was seen exiting the building by several of the residents. The murderer had entered—and escap...
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Ten Trails to Tyburn
‘But Pierre could never know that in death Fame was his, for his was the second corpse.’ When a well-known local vagrant nicknamed "Peter the Hermit” dies of seemingly natural causes, the police uncover an old Bulgarian newspaper and a beautiful bejewelled comb wor...
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Work for the Hangman
“What I read in your hand is tragedy—a horrible tragedy that doesn’t come to one in a million people.” Bookseller Theodore Terhune buys the substantial library of recently deceased James Strudgewick, a wealthy Yorkshireman who drowned at a local beauty spot. Deem...
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In Muffled Night
It was not at all a suitable house for a murder. Helen Bailey is the live-in housekeeper to the wealthy Murray family. Tall, dark-haired and beautiful, the enigmatic Helen has long ensured that life at ‘The Towers’ ran smoothly for autocratic patriarch James Murray...
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Bibliomysteries
September 3, 2021
One of the lovely thing about murder mysteries is that sub-genres abound that cater to every taste. Bibliomysteries are a category of crim...
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Favourite Vintage Mystery Blogs
September 1, 2021
Pretty Sinister The Passing Tramp Do you Write under Your own Name? In Search of the Classic Mystery Blog Crossing Examining Crime Beneath t...
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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C.S. Lewis