'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Judy Piatkus was a publisher with an eye for talent. I say that slightly with tongue in cheek, since she took me on when I was a new writer,...

  I'm back home after a flying visit to the British Library on Saturday, when I took part in Deadly , the Library's first festival d...

The House on Tollard Ridge , first published in 1929, is regarded by some authorities as one of John Rhode's best detective novels. It i...

I stumbled across Who Killed Lamb? on YouTube the other day. It's a TV police story dating from 1974, an hour long and self-contained, ...

Today I'm revisiting a true crime book of the past which is due to be republished in the near future; John Banville, no less, describes ...

Geoffrey Valentine Galwey, who wrote as G.V. Galwey, was one of the many people who worked in advertising who also tried their hand at writi...

The Critic is a film scripted by Patrick Marber and based on a novel from 2015 with which I'm unfamiliar, Curtain Call by Anthony Quin...

Everything's been in a bit of a whirl since I got home from New Zealand, and it's only today that I'm getting round to celebrati...

Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was a member of the first panel of crime writers in which I ever took part, in a local library in Liverpool, quite...

As anyone who knows me well will readily confirm, I'm not one of the world's great gourmets. Far from it. Give me a steak and ale pi...