'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

D M Devine, a Scottish writer who later published under the name Dominic Devine (although his actual name was David Macdonald Devine), was o...

Desmond Bagley was a very good thriller writer. My Dad was a big fan of his novels, and although I never met Bagley (who was always known as...

  A leading dealer in rare books told me recently that supernatural and other weird fiction is highly collectible at present, and a glance a...

The Dead Mouse is an odd title for an odd book. It was published in 1930 by Austen Allen, the second of four detective novels that he produ...

The Sketch Artist is an unpretentious American thriller dating from 1992 and written by Michael Angeli, a capable screenwriter whose other c...

Popular culture is awash with homages of varying merit. In the film world, Brian de Palma has long been renowned for paying tribute in his o...

His Own Appointed Day , first published by Collins Crime Club in 1965, was D.M. Devine's fourth crime novel. The paperback edition came ...

T.R. Bowen, also known as Trevor Bowen, has had a successful career as both an actor and a screenwriter. He has written scripts for the Miss...

The murder in 1943 of Sir Harry Oakes remains unsolved. It was a gruesome and sensational crime, committed in The Bahamas, where Oakes (an A...

I recall reading The Day of the Jackal as a teenager, just after it came out in paperback. I'd read the reviews and the book sounded fa...