Archive Sites

Sadly, blogs and Web sites disappear periodically, their authors tiring of the work that goes into writing these resources or keeping them up to date. Many other such enterprises, however, are allowed to go fallow, not vanishing but no longer receiving the attention they once did. Below are a few sites we enjoyed in their heyday, and think continue to be of interest, even in their dormancy.

• The Abbott Gran Old Tyme Medicine Show!
• Blazing! Adventures Magazine
• Big Beat from Badsville
• Bookends
• Booknoir
• A Case of Murder
• Celebrating Reginald Hill
• Chalk Outlines in Snow
• Classic Paperback Reads
• Clews: Your Home for Historic True Crime
• ClueLass
• Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
• Crime Beat Street
• Crime Club: The Cutie and Grifter’s Game (B&N)
• Criminal Brief
• Dark City Underground
• Hard Feelings
• Independent Crime
• It Couldn’t Happen Here ...
• It’s a Mystery
• It’s Criminal
• The Lazy Scholar
• Lies! Damned Lies!
• Ligature Marks Fiction & Film
• Murderati
• Mystery*File Archives
• Mystery News
• My Year in Crime
• 1947 Project: Los Angeles De-Mythified
• The Outpost
• Petrona
• Ransom Notes
• Squeezegut Alley
• Tart City
• This Is Ed Robertson
• A Thriller a Day
• To the Batpoles!
• The Trap of Solid Gold
• Vintage Hard-boiled Reads
• Web Mystery Magazine
• Wisdom Mistaken for Lunacy

Please drop us a line if any of these links no longer work.

A final appeal: Don’t kill your blog or Web site! By doing so, you only create dead links from other sites. If you must stop writing online, please just let your work sit as it is without further updating. Place a notice at the top of your blog or other Web page, informing readers that you’ve gone temporarily or permanently out of business, but that they can continue to check back on your existing material in the future. Readers and researchers will appreciate your consideration.