'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

When Claus von Bulow died six years ago, the BBC report about his passing carried the headline: 'Socialite cleared of trying to murder h...

I'm not absolutely sure what to make of Strange Darling - a 2023 film that has received excellent reviews - although I do think the tit...

John Sladek's brief but brilliant career as a writer of locked room mysteries came to an end with Invisible Green (1977). in which his...

A Most Wanted Man is a film from 2014 based on a novel published by John le Carre eight years earlier. I haven't read the book, but app...

Last year I spent a few days at the cottage of my old school friend Stephen in Monreith, which is in the Machars, a peninsula in Dumfries an...

It's an exciting time as I look forward to my puzzle mystery Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife coming out in hardback on 11 Septe...

Nightmare is a novel by Anne Blaisdell, but the author - who went on to enjoy a highly prolific career - is better known as Dell Shannon (n...

  I've met Phil Lecomber, with whom I share an agent, a number of times over the past year or so. I enjoy his company, and asked him to ...

If you've read The Life of Crime, you'll know that the lives of crime writers are full of ups and downs, but it's fair to say t...

Desmond Lowden is a writer who interests me more as I find out more about the man and his work. He was far from prolific, publishing just ei...