'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

I vividly remember watching the first episode of Inspector Morse starring John Thaw as the great Oxford detective and discussing it with a ...

The 21st annual Crime and Mystery Week-end at St Hilda's College in Oxford was as enjoyable as ever. The theme, topically, ...

Endeavour , shown this evening on ITV, is a relative rarity in detective fiction, a prequel. You can guess from the title that it concerned ...

It's been a lousy summer in Britain, but of course there have been some exceptional days, and two of the last three Satu...

Hallowe’en Party is the latest instalment of A gatha Christie’s Poirot , due to be shown in the UK at 8 p.m. tonight, and as I’ll be away, ...

I first read Colin Dexter’s Morse novel The Dead of Jericho in the early 80s, and I remember enjoying the TV version a few years after that...

Last week-end I returned to Oxford, subject of the second of my essays for Maxim Jakubowski’s forthcoming book on scenes of crime fiction, F...

When I talked to second hand book dealers, while researching background for The Serpent Pool , I was struck by how often they mentioned the ...

I enjoyed the recently screened ITV3 documentary about Colin Dexter, which featured interviews with plenty of contemporary writers who expre...

It’s intriguing that such an apparently civilised place as Oxford should have formed the backdrop to so many murder stories, on the page, an...

On a sunny summer day, Oxford is a truly idyllic place, and the St Hilda’s conference was blessed with wonderful weather from Friday to Sund...

Yesterday evening we went on a canal cruise that involved a very good dinner, consumed in excellent company that included crime writer Kate ...

I’ve always been fascinated by the number of crime stories that are set in Oxford. Many, many more than are set in English cities more obvio...

I’m really pleased to have been invited to Oxford, to speak at the St Hilda’s College Crime and Mystery week-end in August. This is an event...