'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Paul Winterton, himself the son of a journalist who had briefly been a Labour MP, had a successful career in Fleet Street (though he was rat...

With most films, I don't find it too difficult to make up my mind about whether I enjoyed them or not. The other day, for instance, I wa...

No Country for Old Men , which takes its title from a line in a poem by W.B. Yeats, is a Coen brothers film based on a novel by Cormac McCar...

I know there are very many well-read people who visit this blog, but I'm fairly confident that few, if any, of them will have read A Vie...

Nobody , a film that has enjoyed critical and commercial success, opens with a bruised and battered Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk, who is exce...

I'm truly delighted with the first review of What the World Needs Now , which has just appeared in Ellery Queen's MysteryMagazine. S...

I have quite a vivid memory of being on holiday with my parents in Colwyn Bay in the mid-70s when my Dad ran out of books to read. So he bou...

On Monday I mentioned Ruth Anderson of Wigtown's Well Read Books. She's not only a great bookseller but also very generous and she g...

I'm back at home after an eventful few weeks. I spent some time at Harrogate coinciding with the crime writing festival, and had some lo...

It's more than two years since I last discussed Crime Dossiers on this blog , so it's high time to take another look at one of the m...