'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

I’ve mentioned several times my enthusiasm for Henry Wade, and my Forgotten Book for today is his second novel, The Missing Partners . A hig...

The Last of Sheila is a1973 whodunit film that has achieved cult status. It’s not currently available on DVD in the UK, and I’d been se...

S.S. Van Dine was an American Golden Age detective novelist whose elaborate mysteries featuring amateur sleuth and know-all Philo Vance were...

John Rhode was arguably the most prolific of the Golden Age detective novelists, and because he wrote so much, his work tends to be mixed in...

CADS 63, edited by the tireless Geoff Bradley, has just been published, and once again it’s packed with interesting and often esoteric inf...

Judging short story competitions is both a privilege and a responsibility. Over the past twenty years or so, I’ve entered a few competitio...

Here’s a question for you. Which Golden Age crime novel begins at a football match in a working class town, and features a footballer as its...

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story is a film about a murder – or, rather, the events leading up to it. Same concept as Agatha Christie’s Towards ...

The Cadaver Game , the latest Wesley Peterson murder mystery from Kate Ellis, is the 15 th in a series that continues to go from strength...

One of J.J. Connington’s most popular novels, which became a green Penguin edition after his death, is my Forgotten Book for today, The Case...