'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

This month the blog has, for the second month running, seen pageviews well in excess of one million. A big number, but I am conscious that A...

The Family Next Door is a six-part Australian TV series which originally aired last year and which I caught up with on ITV X. It's based...

Bodies from the Library has always been a popular event, but on Saturday, for the first time in its eleven year history, the Knowledge Centr...

The Royston Affair , first published in 1964 by Collins Crime Club, was D.M. Devine's third novel. It begins with a 'prodigal son...

As I've mentioned several times before, Stark House Press do a very good job of reprinting interesting and varied crime novels and short...

I've known Tina Hodgkinson for several years - if I remember rightly, which can never be guaranteed, we first met at the British Library...

Frame-Up , first published in 1964, is a characteristically snappy murder mystery by Paul Winterton, who by that time was writing as Andrew ...

Alibis in the Archive is always a highlight in my year. I set up this festival in collaboration with Gladstone's Library back in 2017, a...

I'm just back from a hugely enjoyable Alibis in the Archive weekend. However, whilst I was away, I received the sad news that Sheila Kea...

Death is My Bridegroom was published in 1969 by Dominic Devine, shortly after The Sleeping Tiger , a strong and cleverly plotted book with ...