'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

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...

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 ...