A look back at some of Baroness Orczy’s mystery novels and the vibrant characters within.

On The Ministry of Fear, by Graham Greene. Casually dismissed by critics at the time of its release, The Ministry of Fear (1943) rises to the level of Greene’s serious novels. In the guise of a spy ...

Raymond Asquith (1878–1916)—the son of the British prime minister H. H. Asquith, a wit, scholar, barrister, and, at the end of his life, soldier—was the stuff of legend. In the years before 1914, he ...

The concert at David Geffen Hall on Saturday night was a promising one—more than promising, a lock-cinch guarantee. Three top-flight musicians gathered to play a program of piano trios. Those ...

When did World War I begin? In his new book The Blood-Dimmed Tide: Central Europe’s Long Great War, 1905–1921, Jesse Kauffman, a history professor at Eastern Michigan University, provides a novel ...

The Czech novelist Milan Kundera was in his late thirties when he published his first novel, The Joke, in Prague in 1967. The book traces the fortunes and amours of a young student, Ludvik, after his ...