Thought I'd post a few here for your pleasure and convenience. They all
have some sort of mystery connection. For the most part, I have left out sites that sell
the sort of books we can get through the Forum's Amazon.com connection.
Papyrus Place - resource for manuscript mailing
boxes and other items useful to the writer.
Evidence Collection and Protection, Inc.
Products for the crime scene investigator,
evidence technician, crime lab, and property room. From fingerprint kits to theft
detection chemicals (whatever they are). No, I havent tried ordering anything. But
browsing is fun.
Femmes Fatale. Great mystery fan web
site with a nonbook gift catalog you can send
away for, plus a few items you can buy online. Offers a cute Crime Writer's Desk teapot. I
particularly like the Psycho shower curtain with the silhouette of a female
figure, dagger upraised.
Los Angeles Dept. of Coroner Gift Shop. This is
not a gag. That very official Office of Unnatural Death really does run an extensive gift
shop. Lots of mugs and T-shirts, etc. My favorite items are the beach towel with body
outline and the toe tag keychain.
MysteryNet, a fun mystery writing
site, offers two Agatha Christie jigsaw puzzles with accompanying books for $20.
Paladin Press. Books and videotapes on
subjects such as weaponry and combat
shooting, silencers, sniping, explosives, knives and knife fighting, locksmithing, martial
arts and self-defense, military and police science, new ID, survival, espionage and
investigation, and more.
Theatre des Vampires.
Celebrating all things undead. Anne Rice is Goddess here. Links to companies selling to
the Goth crowd such hard-to-unlive-without items as custom-made fangs, special-effects
contact lenses, cloaks and Lovecraftian jewelry.
http://www.clue-mystery.com/
Clue or Cluedo. Hasbros very entertaining web site for luring you into buying the
interactive version of the mystery parlor game.
http://www.prairieghosts.com/detector.html
Ghost Detector Shop. Recommended items from the American Ghost Society Ghost Hunter's
Handbook. Yes, seriously. Geiger counters, EMF detectors (whatever they are), thermal
scanners, the works. Could be pretty handy for detecting mortal bodies, too...
http://www.sherlock-holmes.com/mystery.htm
Sherlockian Shopping/Watsons Quick Mystery. Where to buy all things Sherlock Holmes,
plus nifty little mystery stories to amuse you.
http://www.mysterygames.com/
Jamie Swise Mystery Games. Fun web site for buying this guys interactive mystery
games. You get samples of the games offered, with great sound effects.
http://users.vmicro.com/erlesclub/
Uncle Erle's Mystery Club. Devoted to Erle Stanley Gardner, author of the Perry Mason
mysteries. With membership you get a chatty little quarterly newsletter of Gardner-related
stuff, including a crossword puzzle. T-shirts and buttons also available.
http://www.murdermysterycruises.com/
Murder Mystery Cruises Home Page. Go ahead, write your next mystery about a crime aboard a
cruise ship. Then you can write this trip off.
http://home.erols.com/novelexp/
Novel Explorations. British company specializing in tours with a genre-writing theme,
Mystery, Romantic, Western, Historical, Ghost, etc.
http://bandb.miningco.com/msub2.htm
Murder Mystery Weekends. List of bed-and-breakfasts in the U.S. and Canada that hold
staged murder mystery events.
Provided by Charmaine Getz - MWF member
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