'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

I'm nervous about gambling and I've never put on a bet in a casino. However, I have visited a couple of casinos in the company of my...

Robert Bloch was a prolific and highly capable writer who made his name by writing Psycho . A few years later he cashed in on the success of...

A few years back, I acquired a copy of The Uncounted Hour (1936) by Herbert Warner Allen, inscribed to the wine buff, merchant, and writer ...

Curtis Hanson was a highly capable movie director and I belatedly caught up with a film of his from 1990, Bad Influence . Thirty-five years ...

The locked room mystery has played a significant part in the evolution of the detective story. The very first detective story proper (by gen...

When Harry Carmichael's Of Unsound Mind was published in 1960, the blurb writer for Collins Crime Club didn't stint on the hype: ...

The Wasp is a film with a script by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, who adapted her own stage play. Those theatrical origins are fairly evident, give...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to change our world for the better in any number of ways. It's here to stay, it can't be u...

I've mentioned the crime fiction of Shelley Smith (the pen-name of Nancy Bodington) admiringly on this blog quite a few times over the y...

Crime writers are a diverse bunch, but over the years I've noticed that friends of mine who enjoy enduring success tend to be not only h...