'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

I was tempted to acquire a copy of Alan Thomas's Death of the Home Secretary because a copy became available that bears a fascinating i...

    I first met Joy Swift when she and I were very young - about 40 years ago! I was f...

When I wrote Gallows Court , I imagined it was going to be a one-off. I wasn't confident the book would find a publisher, because it...

Roy Hart was a talented crime writer whose career encompassed eleven novels. The first two were published by Robert Hale for the library mar...

I've always liked science fiction, although I prefer to consume it in fairly small doses. Two of the best sci-films I've seen over t...

This weekend saw the revival of a great tradition - the CWA Northern Chapter Symposium. In my early days in the CWA, these weekends were a h...

It's often forgotten just how many Golden Age detective novels - not just thrillers by the likes of Ethel Lina White or Francis Beeding ...

I was deeply saddened this morning to learn of the death earlier today of Peter Lovesey. I visited Peter at his home in Shrewsbury less than...

My recent trip to New Zealand has fuelled my interest in things Antipodean, and although I've never been to Australia (one of these days...

  I'm truly delighted to have received an early copy of the new, 10th anniversary edition of The Golden Age of Murder . This edition is...