'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Mark Aldridge is one of a group of people, with John Curran to the fore, who are academic experts with a specialism in Agatha Christie. He...

Yesterday I received an unexpected message from some people called Feedspot. They have created a Top Thirty of UK crime fiction blogs and we...

It's been a busy and enjoyable few days - unseasonally connected with the seaside! I was very pleased to see that The Critic magazine r...

It's ten years since a review by John Norris of a book by R.C. Ashby (who was to become much better-known as Ruby Ferguson, a popular au...

Jamie Sturgeon, a book dealer who has over the years supplied me not only with plenty of books but also with a good deal of interesting info...

Puzzles are much in vogue at present, and this fashion is reflected in contemporary crime writing. In many ways, it seems to me that the pub...

Until recently I'd avoided Michael Winner's 1988 movie version of Agatha Christie's Appointment with Death for two reasons. Fi...

When I first read Anthony Berkeley's 1938 stand-alone novel Not to be Taken , many moons ago, I recall that I was slightly underwhelmed ...

Catherine Aird is someone I've known and admired for a long time, both as a writer and as a delightful companion. In the course of her e...

Thanks to YouTube, I've just watched Person Unknown , an ITV 'play of the week' made by Anglia TV back in 1967 which was previou...