'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

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...

I've mentioned before my long-term interest in the writing of Nedra Tyre, whom I first discovered through her short stories published by...

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...