The mystery and crime-writing genre set its roots in detective novels, with early hits like The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Felix in 1862 and A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur ...

Forget ghosts. Forget seances. Forget mazelike passageways constructed to confuse vengeful spirits. The real mystery of the Winchester Mystery House is how it’s such a fascinating study in ...

Delaware County historian Keith Lockhart is working his way through quite a few postcards and photos from about a century ago that are confounding him in one way or another regarding the exact ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 26—One of the most bizarre unsolved homicides in Northumberland County turns 120 years old next month. For more than a ...

Historian Keith Lockhart is excited about a new year and another round of research into photos, postcards and photo-based illustrations from about a century ago, and often longer, in Delaware County.

Standing at a podium in the Lemont Area Historical Society and Museum, which used to be a church, author Pat Camalliere recently discussed mystery and history as it relates to her writing style and ...

Narwhals have fascinated and confounded humans for centuries. Now an exhibition at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum is diving into the mystery, history and science of these elusive tusked “unicorns of the ...

We’ve got a fictional small town fighting for its life, two historical novels set in the Twin Cities, and one that brings memories of the old Dayton’s department store. Several of these authors will ...

Oct. 28—One of the most bizarre unsolved homicides in Northumberland County turns 120 years old next month. For more than a century, the mystery of the Shamokin Head has intrigued residents since it ...