'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

The Word of Murder, Anthony Horowitz's latest bestseller, is to my mind even more fascinating than Magpie Murders , his take on the Gol...

Vera Caspary (1899-1987) is remembered today chiefly as the author of Laura , but that book launched her as a crime writer, and she continue...

I've written many times on this blog, and elsewhere, about my lifelong love of libraries. I vividly remember being, at the age of ten...

One of the joys of the revival of interest in Golden Age detective fiction is that quite an avalanche of long-vanished books are now readily...

The Theft of the Iron Dogs is one of the more intriguing titles for a crime novel. The book was written by E.C.R. Lorac, and first publishe...

Married Life is the rather odd (and to my mind unsatisfactory) title given to a 2007 American film version by Ira Sachs of a novel publishe...

Laura, by Vera Caspary, is a famous crime novel that became an even more famous film noir, as well as a stage play, and haunting song. The ...

  I'm truly sorry to report the death, on Wednesday, of Jessica Mann, a crime writer and reviewer of distinction. It's only a mo...

Double Confession is a British post-war film which is sometimes described as a film noir , despite the fact that the action mostly takes pla...

As England celebrates an improbable run of success in the World Cup, the British Library publishes tomorrow a novel that is surely the b...