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!
• At the Scene of the Crime
• Battered, Tattered, Yellowed & Creased
• Beat to a Pulp
• Bill Crider’s Pop Culture Magazine
• Black Mask
• The Bloodstained Bookshelf
• Books ’n’ Bytes
• British TV Detectives
• The Broken Bullhorn
• Celebrating Reginald Hill
• Classic Mysteries Podcast
• Classic Paperback Reads
• The Consulting Detective
• The Corpse Steps Out
• Crime Always Pays: Declan Burke
• Crime Beat Street
• Crime Down Under
• Crime Pays
• Crime Scraps Review
• Crime Thru Time
• Criminal Brief
• Criminal-E
• Detectives Beyond Borders
• DJ’s Krimiblog
• The Drowning Machine
• Ed Gorman’s Blog
• Existentialist Man
• Fair Dinkum Crime
• Heath Lowrance’s Psycho Noir
• I Am a Tie-in Writer
• Independent Crime
• The Ingenious Game of Murder
• In So Many Words ...
• It Couldn’t Happen Here ...
• It’s a Crime! (or a Mystery ...)
• It’s a Mystery
• It’s Criminal
• James Bond Memes
• Jen’s Book Thoughts
• JJ Gittes Investigations
• Lawrence Block’s Blog
• The Lazy Scholar
• Life, Death and Fog
• Little Known Gems
• Lost in Books
• Main Title Heaven
• Matt Paust’s Crime Time
• The Men Who Explain Miracles
• Mr. Hardboiled
• Murderati
• My Place for Mystery
• Mysterious Matters: Mystery Publishing Demystified
• Mysterious Musings
• Mystery*File Archives
• Neat, Clean, Shaved & Sober
• 1947 Project: Los Angeles De-Mythified
• Not the Baseball Pitcher
• Off on a Tangent
• Petrona
• Picks by Pat
• Plots With Guns
• Poe’s Deadly Daughters
• Pulp Den: Earl Norman and Burns Bannion
• Pulp Serenade
• Rara-Avis
• The Raymond Chandler Web Site
• Read Me Deadly
• The Reader Is Warned
• The Ringer Files
• Scandinavian Crime Fiction
• Scott D. Parker
• Six Word Stories
• A Thriller a Day
• To the Batpoles!
• Tough
• The Trap of Solid Gold
• Two-Fisted Tales of True-Life Romance!
• Vintage Hard-boiled Reads
• • Web Mystery Magazine

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.