title: Detecting Men: A Readers Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Men
author:  Willetta L. Heising 
description: Need to know the titles of the 16 Johnny Fedora secret agent books that Shaun Lloyd McCarthy wrote under his Desmond Cory pseudonym between 1951 and 1971? See page 67 of this immediately essential guide to everything you ever wanted to learn about mysteries written by men. The volume is a worthy successor to Willetta L. Heising's <a href="/exec/obidos/Title=Detecting%20Women/${0}"><i>Detecting Women</i></a>. On page 142, you'll find the four Nick Duffy books that famous British novelist Julian Barnes wrote under the name of Dan Kavanagh, and on page 154 you'll find out how to pronounce John T. Lescroart's last name--(LES-kwah). In fact, there's a need-to-know nugget on every page of this informative and entertaining enterprise.
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  # A MYSTERY OF THE SAND-HILLS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
  
  
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  I HAVE occasionally wondered how often Mystery and Romance present themselves
  to us ordinary men of affairs only to be passed by without recognition. More
  often, I suspect than most of us imagine. The uncanny tendency of my talented
  friend John Thorndyke to become involved in strange, mysterious and abnormal
  circumstances has almost become a joke against him. But yet, on reflection, I
  am disposed to think that his experiences have not differed essentially from
  those of other men, but that his extraordinary powers of observation and rapid
  inference have enabled him to detect abnormal elements in what, to ordinary
  men, appeared to be quite commonplace occurrences. Certainly this was so in
  the singular Roscoff case, in which, if I had been alone, I should assuredly
  have seen nothing to merit more than a passin