Jeffrey Marks

63, Male

CIncinnati

United States

Profile Information:

Hometown:
Cincinnati, OH
About Me:
I'm a mystery writer who is now focusing on the history of mystery. My books include Who Was That Lady? Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery, Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s/1950s, and an upcoming biography of Anthony Boucher. I'm a contributing editor of Mystery Scene Magazine. I read a lot of Golden Age mysteries along with some favorite current day authors.
I Am A:
Reader, Writer, Critic
Website:
http://www.jeffreymarks.com
Books And Authors I Like:
Agatha Christie, Craig Rice, Margaret Millar, Laura Lippman, SJ Rozan, Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen, Patrick Quentin, SS Van Dine, many others.
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
Heros, The Closer

Comment Wall:

  • LC Fraser

    Hey Jeff! Welcome to this new play area. If you go to the main page there is a link to the bar and you will find a lot of discussion going on there.
    Lynne

    Mar 22, 2007

  • Lynette Hall Hampton

    Hi Jeff, it's nice to see people joining that I recognize. This seems to be a fun place to be. I've just been so busy meeting a deadline that I haven't spent a lot of time on the site. In a couple of weeks maybe I'll be able explore it more.

    Mar 22, 2007

  • p. b. smith

    Hi, Jeff! Thanks for telling me about Crimespace. I'm looking forward to meeting new people who share my interest in mysteries.

    Pat

    Mar 22, 2007

  • Chester D. Campbell

    Hi, Jeff. I just joined at your suggestion on MMA. Looks like an interesting place to chat. Like you, I'm trying to finish a book, so I don't have time to linger at present.
    Chester

    Mar 22, 2007

  • BJ Bourg

    Hey, Jeff, thanks for the invite and for loving MFOB. Things are good -- just VERY busy! I have a lot to do before taking vacation in July.
    bjb

    Mar 22, 2007

  • Jeffrey Marks

    Thanks for all the welcomes. I think this will be a great place to hang out (as books permit!)

    Mar 22, 2007

  • FM McPherson

    Hi Jeff! Thanks for putting me on to this (I'm on your MMA list -- a quiet lurker, but I find the loop really informative, thanks for all your work)

    Mar 23, 2007

  • Tiffany Leigh

    Good luck on the home stretch of the Boucher bio -- I adored The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars.

    Mar 24, 2007

  • Jeffrey Marks

    Great book, Tiffany. I loved it too. At one point, the BSI thought that one of their members had written it under a "Boucher" pen name :)

    Mar 24, 2007

  • PJ Nunn

    Yes, thanks for posting the link on MMA. Fun place. Lady Arwen sends aroos to Ellery =)

    Mar 24, 2007

  • LC Fraser

    Happy Easter Jeff! Hope you did not eat as much chocolate as I just did (for breakfast no less)

    Apr 9, 2007

  • Daniel Hatadi

    Hey Jeffrey, I removed your post from the forum as I've already created an Events section especially for announcements.

    Cheers,
    Daniel

    Apr 12, 2007

  • Michael Koryta

    Hey, good to hear from you. Hope all is going well. You ever going to pass back through Bloomington?

    Apr 12, 2007

  • Tom Cain

    The history of mystery? That has a kind of ring to it. Like the price of mice or the maths of baths. And what about those poor, uneducated souls fro whom history itself is a mystery? Anyway, thatnks for putting me on your dance-card. Hope I haven't made you regret it!

    Jun 14, 2007

  • Jeffrey Marks

    Perhaps I should have joined the poetry space as well -- but the history of the mystery it is.. Of course, I could have said genre, but so few things rhyme with that.

    Jun 14, 2007

  • Tom Cain

    There's gotta be something rhymes with genre, tho' I can't think of anything right now. Maybe it's like orange ... a word for which there is no rhyme

    Jun 14, 2007

  • Lynda Fitzgerald

    Hi Jeff,

    I'm honored with the invite. Keep on writing!

    Jun 15, 2007

  • Tom Cain

    I have spent days - yes, days - trying to write a witty limerick based on the word genres. I have, as yet, failed utterly. But I wanted you to know that I'd tried!

    Jun 17, 2007

  • Tom Cain

    Re. the new book ... an update coming shortly on my blog - in non-rhyming prose!

    Jun 17, 2007

  • Tom Cain

    Update now written .. check it out any time

    (And I'm impressed by your Christie collection, by the way. Always wanted to do the same with first edition Ian Flemings).

    Jun 19, 2007

  • LC Fraser

    Love the radio shows!

    Jun 20, 2007

  • PulpStar

    Hiya Jeff. Thanks for the invite. Here's pulp in your eye!

    Jul 24, 2007

  • Fabrizio Fulio - Bragoni

    thanx for the invite,
    bye,
    fabrizio

    Sep 5, 2007

  • Mark Terry

    Hi Jeff!

    Sep 25, 2007

  • Jeremy James

    Never read Lunar Park. Good read?

    Oct 14, 2007

  • Jeffrey Marks

    Different for him. BEE claims it's a homage to Stephen King.

    Oct 14, 2007

  • Craig McDonald

    Thanks so much for the invite, Jeffrey. Great to hear from a fellow Buckeye...and I loved your Craig Rice book.

    Oct 14, 2007

  • Jeffrey Marks

    Was it something about the name "Craig" that did it?

    5 of us run a blog on Buckeye mystery writers -- would you like to do a posting sometime?

    Oct 15, 2007

  • John Morgan Wilson

    Jeffrey...

    Nice to meet you via Crimespace. I'm a technophobe, so just getting a page is daunting to me, let alone customizing, using the features, etc. Anyway, thanks for saying hello.

    Oct 15, 2007

  • Jeffrey Marks

    Thanks, John. I've really enjoyed your last 2 books

    Oct 15, 2007

  • Martial Ghislain

    Dear Jeffrey, yeah, I knew about the anagram. I am not a Dr. Who fan but found out a lot while desperately browsing for spoilers for the second season of Torchwood this last weeks. There are few, though *sigh*, but a little hope is there for more JackxIanto. I am an addict of those two ^_^. Thanks for the comment and best wishes, Martial.

    Oct 15, 2007

  • Jeffrey Marks

    Martial, same here. I'm contemplating a region-less DVD player, just so I can circumvent the wait for BBC America to get this out on DVD, and to buy the DVDs from Britain. That's a bad fan!

    Oct 15, 2007

  • Camilla Trinchieri

    Hi Jeffrey-very hapy tobe your friend. In your bio you didn't mention that you edit anthologies such as Criminal Appetites. You certainly are a busy writer. Ciao Camilla

    Oct 15, 2007

  • Jeffrey Marks

    Camilla, I started to write everything I've been doing, but I thought I'd make people tired :)

    Oct 15, 2007

  • Joseph Pittman

    Hey, Jeff. Good to hear from you, and sorry for my delay in responding. I've been swamped while trying to finish up the next book! Hope things are well.

    Oct 18, 2007

  • Jeffrey Marks

    Things are great here. Hope to talk more. I'd love to hear what you've been up to lately!

    Oct 18, 2007

  • Newt Love

    Hi! On the history of mystery topic, I've thought it would make a good book to harvest the USENET list-server archives of rec.arts.mystery for a retrospective on how the open forum of "the net" has impacted the industry and marketplace. The authors who have passed through -- some briefly, others for extended stays -- is amazing. The medium allows for writers, readers, reviewers, critics, book buyers, Indy and corporate booksellers to mix without respect to class or culture in a free-for-all nexus of crime fact and fiction.
    If somebody writes it, I will buy several copies.

    Jan 22, 2008

  • Brian L Porter

    Hi Jefrey,

    Thanks for adding me. Glad to be your friend.

    Like you I've read every Agatha Christie mystery. Great Reads!

    Brian

    Feb 11, 2008

  • Caro Soles

    HI Mark--

    So sorry about Eltery! I had no idea. We went through something similar two years ago but now have two rescue dachshunds (always have dachsies) who are sheer delight! So it's a good year! Now, if I could only get some writing done...

    Caro

    Feb 11, 2008

  • Rick R. Reed

    Hi Mark! Thanks for adding me to your line-up of friends. I look forward to finding out more about you and your work. I hope you’ll check out my new thriller, IM, about a serial killer preying on gay men using Internet hookup sites.

    Feb 11, 2008