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Friday, 13 March 2026

Forgotten Book - Death in a Domino

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Death in a Domino is the American title of a novel originally published in the UK and US in 1932 and now reprinted in the excellent series ...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Czech Mate - 1984 TV movie

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Czech Mate was a feature-film-length episode in the series Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense , a TV anthology series I didn't watch ...
Monday, 9 March 2026

The Man Between - 1953 film review

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Carol Reed was a first-rate film director and The Third Man (1949) was perhaps his greatest achievement. That is a film I know well, but I ...
Friday, 6 March 2026

Forgotten Book - Home to Roost

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Not long ago, I acquired a copy of Andrew Garve's Home to Roost (1976) and it was working its way up the to-read pile ever so slowly unt...
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Wednesday, 4 March 2026

Moon - 2009 film review

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I've always enjoyed science fiction, although I read and watch much less of it than crime fiction, partly because I must admit that I fi...
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BlackBerry - 2023 film review

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I can remember quite vividly a partners' meeting that I attended, perhaps twenty years ago, when a corporate lawyer in my firm waxed lyr...
Monday, 2 March 2026

The Woman in Cabin 10 - Netflix 2025 film review

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Ruth Ware is a very successful writer whose novels of psychological suspense show a real talent for, and commitment to, ingenious plotting. ...
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Friday, 27 February 2026

Forgotten Book - The Unicorn Murders

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 'You are on holiday in Paris...There is nothing on your mind, and you are utterly at peace with all the world...Then you see walking to...

The Truman Show - 1998 film review

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I watched The Truman Show not too long after its original release in 1998 and loved it. Now that 'reality TV' has become omnipresen...
Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Salt - 2010 film review

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Salt is an action thriller starring Angelina Jolie. The writer, Kurt Wimmer, has a number of film credits, including co-writing the remake ...
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Martin Edwards is a crime novelist who has received the CWA Diamond Dagger, UK crime writing's highest honour, and lifetime achievement awards for his short fiction, crime writing, and scholarship. His latest novel is Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife while five books featuring Rachel Savernake have had award nominations. Martin has received the CWA Dagger in the Library, awarded by UK librarians for his body of work. He is President of the Detection Club, consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics, and former Chair of the CWA. His contemporary whodunits include The Coffin Trail, first of eight Lake District Mysteries and shortlisted for the Theakston’s Prize for best crime novel of the year. The Arsenic Labyrinth was shortlisted for Lakeland Book of the Year. The Golden Age of Murder and The Life of Crime both won Edgar awards and three other awards, while The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books and Howdunit each won one award and were nominated for four others. He has created an online crime writing course, Crafting Crime and is archivist for the CWA and the Detection Club. NB - no part of this blog may be used for training of or use by AI technologies.
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