'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

1930 was an important year for the detective novel. Among much else, it saw Jane Marple's first appearance in a novel, and the begin...

Yes, I know. It's pushing things to describe Edmund Crispin's The Case of the Gilded Fly as a Forgotten Book. But the Harper Collin...

My Forgotten Book today is a John Dickson Carr novel that tends to be under-estimated, perhaps because it does not offer a locked room myste...

I''m having something of a binge on the works of John Dickson Carr at present, and my Forgotten Book for today is his fifth novel, P...

" And then he woke up, and he realised it had all been a dream ." I've arrived back home after a week in the United State...

It's always a delight to receive the latest copy of CADS, which celebrated its 30th birthday not long ago. This is issue 71 of Geoff Bra...

Anyone who enjoys classic crime fiction - and probably anybody who enjoys crime fiction generally - is likely to find CADS, a fa...