Ellie Stone Mystery

The Ellie Stone Mystery is a series of whodunit novels by popular mystery crime writer James W. Ziskin. Ziskin published the first of the Ellie Stone Mysteries, Styx and Stone in 2013 and three years later he had written 4 more titles in the series. Set in the 1960s, these books are detective crime mysteries in the mold of books by authors such as Raymond Chandler or Dorothy Sayers. The chief protagonist in the novel is detective Eleonora “Ellie” Stone, currently an inexperienced reporter working for a small newspaper in New Holland, New York. According to Ziskin, the motivations for writing a novel set in the 60s were to explain the fast changing world of the time as contrasted with the changing nature and place of a professional woman during the time. James Ziskin creates a character that readers can connect to on a variety of intellectual and emotional planes.