'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

You can tell that I've been on an Anthony Berkeley binge lately, can't you? My choice for today's Forgotten Book is a novel he w...

I was delighted to read a very generous blog post in The Guardian yesterday about The Hanging Wood . Here's a link to David Ward's p...

During my recent holiday in the Med, one port of call that was just possibly my favourite was the island of Rhodes. I'd never been there...

I'm delighted to say that my story 'Clutter' has been chosen to appear in Best British Mysteries , edited by Maxim Jakubowski, a...

There aren't many sizeable towns in Britain that I haven't visited, but Portsmouth is one of them. It's an omission I shall need...

It is rare for two crime writers who have established significant personal reputations to collaborate on a novel. But there are some notable...

Well, you didn't think that you'd get away with just one set of my holiday snaps, did you?! These photographs were all taken on a me...

I'm back from a wonderful cruise in the Eastern Mediterranean, and acclimatising to a drop in temperature of about 15 degrees Celsius, b...

It must be 25 years or more since I first came across the crime fiction of Simon Brett. I enjoyed a number of his very witty novels abou...

Another Anthony Berkeley for today's Forgotten Book! And this one is an absolute classic - Trial and Error , first published in 1937, ...