Thu 5 Feb 2026
Archived Mystery Review: AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG – Murder to Type.
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AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG – Murder to Type. Phoenix Press, hardcover, 1943.
Blood type, that is. A blackmailer is given the wrong type of blood during an emergency transfusion in a doctor’s office. (The doctor is among those being blackmailed, and so is his female ward.)
Lawyer Stephen Carter. brother of the D.A., does the detective work. While he has a light-hearted view of the world, Long takes the whole affair very seriously. Midst the flutter and clutter, though, who really cares?
— Reprinted from Mystery.File.3, February 1988.
February 6th, 2026 at 12:07 am
Amelia Reynolds Long has her own Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Reynolds_Long
Here’s the first paragraph:
“Amelia Reynolds Long (November 25, 1904 – March 26, 1978) was an American detective fiction writer, novelist, and a pioneer woman writer for the early science fiction magazines of the 1930s.”
The SF magazines that contain her work include WEIRD TALES. Here’s another excerpt from her Wikipedia page::
“In the 1940s, influenced by Agatha Christie, Long turned from science fiction to writing mysteries. Between 1939 and 1952, she published more than 30 murder mystery novels.”
For a brief biography and a list of her mystery novels, go here:
http://gadetection.pbworks.com/w/page/7930965/Long,%20Amelia%20Reynolds
Alas, no copies of MURDER TO TYPE could be found offered for sale online at the present time. I wonder if I still have the copy I read and reviewed back in 1988. I just might.