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Friday, 5 December 2025

Forgotten Book - The Sleeping Tiger

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D M Devine, a Scottish writer who later published under the name Dominic Devine (although his actual name was David Macdonald Devine), was o...
Thursday, 4 December 2025

The Mackintosh Man - 1973 film review

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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...
Monday, 1 December 2025

Tales of the Weird

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  A leading dealer in rare books told me recently that supernatural and other weird fiction is highly collectible at present, and a glance a...
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Friday, 28 November 2025

Forgotten Book - The Dead Mouse

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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...
Wednesday, 26 November 2025

The Sketch Artist - 1992 film review

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The Sketch Artist is an unpretentious American thriller dating from 1992 and written by Michael Angeli, a capable screenwriter whose other c...
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Monday, 24 November 2025

Blow Out - 1981 film review

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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...
Friday, 21 November 2025

Forgotten Book - His Own Appointed Day

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

Forgotten Book - The Death of Amy Parris

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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...
Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Eureka - 1983 film review

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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...
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Monday, 17 November 2025

The Day of the Jackal - 1973 film

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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...
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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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