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
• The Consulting Detective
• Crime Beat Street
• Crime Down Under
• Crime Pays
• 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
• Hey, There’s a Dead Guy in the Living Room
• 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 Lady Killers
• The Lazy Scholar
• Lies! Damned Lies!
• Life, Death and Fog
• Little Known Gems
• Main Title Heaven
• Mean Streets
• Mr. Hardboiled
• Murderati
• My Place for Mystery
• Mysterious Matters: Mystery Publishing Demystified
• 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
• NoirWhale
• Not the Baseball Pitcher
• Off on a Tangent
• Old Bones
• The Outfit
• Petrona
• Poe’s Deadly Daughters
• Pulp Serenade
• The Raymond Chandler Web Site
• Read Me Deadly
• Riordan’s Desk
• Scene of the Crime
• Seattle Mystery Bookshop
• 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.