'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

The description "forgotten book" is, to be honest, a misnomer when it comes to Margery Allingham's 1938 novel The Fashion i...

I've written here previously about my enthusiasm for the crime fiction of Shelley Smith, the pen-name of Nancy Bodington, nee Courlan...

Bury Him Darkly by Henry Wade (1936) is, at first glance, a Golden Age novel of a familiar type. A series of robberies take place at jewel...

I've always enjoyed reading introductions to books. Probably the first that I remember reading, as a schoolboy, was an introduction to a...

I've expressed before my admiration for Henry Wade's Lonely Magdalen, but the publication by Arcturus of a new mass market paperbac...

I've mentioned The Norwich Victims , by Francis Beeding, several times in previous blog posts. It's timely to feature the novel as t...