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
• Bookends
• Books ’n’ Bytes
• The Broken Bullhorn
• A Case of Murder
• Celebrating Reginald Hill
• Chalk Outlines in Snow
• Classic Paperback Reads
• ClueLass
• Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
• Crime Beat Street
• Crime Down Under
• Crime Scene Scotland
• Criminal Brief
• Criminal-E
• Dark City Underground
• Dot Dead Diary
• The Drowning Machine
• Ed and Edgar
• Ed Gorman’s Blog
• Hard Feelings
• Heath Lowrance’s Psycho Noir
• I Am a Tie-in Writer
• Independent Crime
• The Ingenious Game of Murder
• International Crime Authors Reality Check
• It Couldn’t Happen Here ...
• It’s a Crime! (or a Mystery ...)
• It’s a Mystery
• It’s Criminal
• Jen’s Book Thoughts
• The Lazy Scholar
• Lies! Damned Lies!
• Life, Death and Fog
• The Life Sentence
• Ligature Marks Fiction & Film
• Main Title Heaven
• Mean Streets
• Murderati
• My Place for Mystery
• Mystery*File Archives
• Mystery News
• Myst Noir
• My Year in Crime
• Naked Authors
• Neat, Clean, Shaved & Sober
• New Mystery Reader Magazine
• 1947 Project: Los Angeles De-Mythified
• Not the Baseball Pitcher
• Off on a Tangent
• Old Bones
• Only Detect
• The Outfit
• Petrona
• Poe’s Deadly Daughters
• Pulp Serenade
• The Raymond Chandler Web Site
• Scott D. Parker
• Tart City
• A Thriller a Day
• To the Batpoles!
• Traditional Mysteries
• Two-Fisted Tales of True-Life Romance!
• Vintage Hard-boiled Reads
• The Violent World of Parker
• Web Mystery Magazine
• Zachary Klein: Just Sayin’

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.