Why bother with a subway pass when you can swipe a book instead? Danny Lewis reports for The Smithsonian that L&PM Editores, São Paolo’s premier pocketbook publisher, is expanding its… Read more »

Only Shakespeare and the Bible have out-performed the sales of Agatha Christie, the Grand Dame of detective fiction. (According to her estate, her books have sold over four billion copies.) But,… Read more »

In addition to writing more than 60 mystery novels, Agatha Christie also once wrote a travel memoir about the time she spent in the Middle East, traveling with her archaeologist… Read more »

The crime writer Ruth Rendell died on Saturday 2nd May at the age of 85. Rendell was best known for her 24 Inspector Wexford books, which she began writing in 1964,… Read more »

The origin story of Penguin Classics has been told so often that it’s practically gospel in the publishing industry. I wouldn’t be surprised if Penguin’s human resources handbook commands all… Read more »

British ladies have the novel game down, it seems. Agatha Christie: top selling novelist of all time. To say nothing of Rowling, Smith, Austen…the list goes on. So which of… Read more »

Long after her death, Agatha Christie continues to be a source of mystery and intrigue. Maria Puente writes for USA Today that a collection of Christie’s diamonds — long thought… Read more »

Meet Craig Osso, aka Russell Blake, a retired American property developer living in Mexico who is also a self-published bestselling author with 26 novels to his name. Osso’s success has… Read more »

A rare copy of Agatha Chrisie’s Poirot Investigates, the 1924 story collection featuring her soon-to-be-famous detective Hercule Poirot, went for a record-breaking sum at auction, according to this report in… Read more »