The Puzzle Doctor 💙

I'm a Crime Fiction Historian apparently... Rediscoverer of the long-lost mystery author Brian Flynn. Forty books back in print for the first time!

[The Puzzle Doctor 💙 @puzzledoctor]

Today on the blog - an obscure-ish Green Penguin, but probably not worth going out of your way to find a copy... #mystery #greenpenguin #BookTwitter

https://t.co/BxJr2oaX5I

[Matthew Sweet @DrMatthewSweet]

Here's the truth about cancer and ivermectin. Best obtained from @macmillancancer or @CR_UK than a notorious fantasist who works for @GBNEWS. https://t.co/raP63NRR3e

[The Puzzle Doctor 💙 @puzzledoctor]

Out now - the 150th (ish) title in the @BL_Publishing Crime Classics range. The Unicorn Murders by Carter Dickson #BookTwitter #ImpossibleCrime #mystery

https://t.co/lJ1K9DdI3v

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[The Puzzle Doctor 💙 @puzzledoctor]

My Top Five Standalone Mysteries

#BookTwitter #Mysteries

https://t.co/uO5frWdiUI

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Reform-led Durham council cut off funding to the annual Pride celebrations.

So trade unions launched a fundraiser to save it, eventually raising more money than was cut.

Which means this year's Pride will be bigger than ever.

In the 1980s, the LGBT+ community raised thousands of pounds to help striking miners and their families.

When we stick up for each other, we can achieve anything.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.

RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

[Covie @covie_93]

Shoutout to Volodymyr Zelenskyy for surviving actual assassination attempts and never demanding a ballroom once.

[Dean Street Press @DeanStPress]

Arrest the Bishop? by Winifred Peck #FreetillFriday on Kindle this week! 😊
The author came from the brilliant Knox family. Her brothers included a Punch editor, an Enigma codebreaker, and a mystery writer.
Intro by Martin Edwards @medwardsbooks
Links below 👇

[The Puzzle Doctor 💙 @puzzledoctor]

And here's one from John Dickson Carr, an overlooked gem that is one of my favourite books in my collection

[The Puzzle Doctor 💙 @puzzledoctor]

No sign of these two v rare 1955 books yet for today's #MurderEveryMonday so better rectify that... @DeanStPress

[Coventry Libraries and Information Service 📚 @covlibraries]

Have you seen crime writers Simon McCleave and Tim Sullivan 🔎 ? We will during the free event on Sat 27 June 2-3pm in Central Library. To book, email [email protected] or call 024 7683 2314
@simon_mccleave @TimJRSullivan @The_CWA @readingagency @coventrycc

[Sarah Hilary @sarah_hilary]

Found the first (but doubtless not the last) illegal download of The Drowning Place being offered online; a deeply depressing fact of life for many authors, breaching our copyright and threatening our ability to make a living from our work.

1/2

[The Puzzle Doctor 💙 @puzzledoctor]

Out early next month - Murder By Design by Lee Goldberg
#BookTwitter #Mystery
https://t.co/d8CfHOotzm

[The Puzzle Doctor 💙 @puzzledoctor]

@MichaelJecks Here's my latest...

[The Puzzle Doctor 💙 @puzzledoctor]

@MichaelJecks Sorry, is "Long Perk" the surname of this not-made-up person?

[The Puzzle Doctor 💙 @puzzledoctor]

It’s not just established authors like @MWCravenUK or @MichaelJecks who get targeted with spam emails…
#Mystery #BookTwitter #AIslop

https://t.co/XmswJJitdq

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

TV presenter to Farage

"You promised local council tax cuts"
"I never said that"
"Here is a film of you saying it"
"I never said that"
"The film clearly shows you saying it"
"Can we move on now?"
"Here is one of your leaflets where you say it"
"Next question"

[The Puzzle Doctor 💙 @puzzledoctor]

Second one of these in a month - the last one thought I was @MJTrowCrime who I last reviewed in 2016. Obviously I'm not going to reply to the email but what does the scammer hope to get out of this? And why do they keep thinking I'm someone else?#Mystery

[The Puzzle Doctor 💙 @puzzledoctor]

More AI spam in the blog inbox. This one thinks that I'm Jonathan Stagge (two different authors under one name in fact) and wants to promote Death's Old Sweet Song for me... [cont]

[The Puzzle Doctor 💙 @puzzledoctor]

... despite it being very out of print. Also this "book curator" can't use punctuation. At all. Oh, and the email address is the very non-suspicious beautifulmichelle@...