Crippen & Landru Publishers

04/30/2026

News and More - Look at the new books on sale.

04/02/2026

Check out these great deals in our special offers pages.

The offers change weekly, so don't miss it!!

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02/24/2026

Happy to see this interview with Cheryl Head, who appeared in the most recent anthology, Double Crossing Van Dine.

About Shortmystery, genre insight from every perspective: reading, writing, revising, submitting, editing, publishing, and publicity.

01/03/2026

Happy New Year to one and all.

11/28/2025

So very thrilled to see Double Crossing Van Dine listed in Oline Cogdill's best-of list! Crippen & Landru doesn't do many anthologies but they're done well with some of the very best mystery authors writing short fiction today!

11/27/2025

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11/26/2025

It actually has started already. 25% books at eBooks at our website.

Crippen & Landru publishes the very best in single-author mystery short story collection. We publish both contemporary authors and our lost classics, the best of the Golden Age Detection mysteries as well. (Be sure to check our titles in the Crippen & Landru wiki.) Crippen & Landru is celebrating it...

11/24/2025

Annual Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales at Crippen & Landru - 25% offhttps://mailchi.mp/89bb95740f38/black-fridaycyber-monday-sale-until-122

11/14/2025

Keep up the good work! The Concise Cuddy is 1 and 2 on the lists!

11/13/2025

FREE this week - The Concise Cuddy -- until November 16th.

"One of Today's Best American Mystery Series," writes the Chicago Sun-Times about Jeremiah Healy

And Cuddy Plus One is at a reduced price until November 15th. Check them out!!

"One of Today's Best American Mystery Series," writes the Chicago Sun-Times about Jeremiah Healy's books featuring private detective John Francis Cuddy. One of the most popular and admired of current crime writers, Healy has been honored by his fellow writers by eleven Shamus nominations (five fo...