Welcome to the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, your gateway to the best mystery on the internet!
Our
website is
committed to providing readers and collectors of mysteries, thrillers,
suspense and crime novels with the
best and most current information about their favorite authors,
books, and series.
Some
of the many features available
on our family of mystery websites include those listed below.
Additional information on a variety of mystery-themed subjects can be
accessed by selecting links on the sidebar menu to the left.
Look
for new mysteries to read (or listen to). Lists of new
hardcover
mystery titles and new
paperback mysteries are updated
every
month.
Previous month's
titles are retained for several months to give you an opportunity to
look for any favorite authors you may have missed. We've also added new
sites for ebooks: MystereBooks
for
current and bestselling mystery, suspense and thriller ebooks, and Kindle
mysteries for those that are
available for
the
new Amazon
Kindle.
Our Mysteriosi
website provides information on digital audio
mysteries that are
available on CD.
Introduce
your
children to the wonderful world of mystery! First
Clues: Mysteries for Kids is a
website just for kids who love mystery books. Our list of series
mysteries are categorized by age: New Sleuth (appropriate for readers
aged 4 to 6), Future Sleuth (ages 7 to 9), Sleuth in Training
(ages 10 to 12), and Apprentice Sleuth (ages 13 and older). We've
recently added a new feature: First
Clue Reviews, mystery book
reviews written by kids for kids (and their parents)!
Read
independent reviews of upcoming and recently published mystery books at
Mysterious
Reviews. Typically 4 to 6 new
reviews are published on this
website every week.
Check
out
our
list of mystery
bestsellers
updated every
Friday. We take sales information from a variety of sources and combine
it into a proprietary ranking of the bestselling hardcover mysteries
each week.
Find
your
favorite mysteries and crime dramas on DVD and Blu-ray disc. Telemystery
has one of the largest
selections of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and
suspense television mystery series that are now available or coming
soon to DVD and Blu-ray disc. Cinemystery
is a source for
information on mystery books that have been adapted for film and are
available on DVD. And one of our newest sites, Mr.
E.
Reviews, reviews of film and
television mysteries.
Have
mysterious fun! Test your knowledge of mysteries and detective fiction
with our monthly
mystery trivia questions. Or try
your hand at solving our
weekly mystery
godoku puzzle featuring a clue
from a mystery book title,
author, or series. Look for new mystery
games, mystery-themed
parties, and vacation
getaways including murder mystery weekends and cruises.
Take
advantage
of the resources we have available to learn more about mystery books.
We have author
bibliographies for hundreds of
mystery writers, lists of mystery
book awards, definitions
of mystery genres, and
information on writing
or self-publishing your mystery book.
We
post new
information from many of our websites to our blog
daily. Recent
entries to Omnimystery
News 
are listed below..
Thank you for visiting the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books. We hope you find something new, fun, and exciting during your visit, and that we'll see you again soon!
Note: The mystery books depicted at the top of this page are selected from the list of the Booksellers’ 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Twentieth Century. All books shown on this page are part of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books private library collection of first edition mysteries and will be rotated on a periodic basis.
