'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Alan Brock is undoubtedly a forgotten writer, but I enjoyed Further Evidence , which I covered on this blog a little while ago, and duly enc...

Other commitments have meant that I'm reporting on the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival at Harrogate ten days after it cam...

The past three months have been hectic, as The Golden Age of Murder has been published, and I've been running hither and thither t...

Partners in Crime, a new BBC series featuring Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, kicked off tonight with part one of The S...

Something a little different today - the story of a forgotten writer, rather than a forgotten book. It's a story that came to me throug...

On Sunday night, immediately after departing from the Harrogate Festival (of which, more soon) I got in the mood for an unforgettable ret...

Oldboy, an American film released two years ago, is directed by Spike Lee, and is evidently a re-make of a Korean movie from a decade earlie...

Today, my Forgotten Book comes from another author whose reputation owed much to the advocacy of Julian Symons in Bloody Murder . Shelley Sm...

Cold in July is a film from last year which is based on a novel by Joe R. Lansdale. At first, it seems that the plot will follow fairly con...

One of the great unsolved mysteries, or so it seems to me, is why there are so many crime writing attorneys in the US, and yet relativel...