'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

A Corpse for Charybdis was the fourth novel published by Susan Gilruth, and the first to appear under the imprint of Hodder & Stoughton...

What a terrific actor James Norton is. I first came across him in the first series of Happy Valley , in which he was superb as a villain, an...

I planned September this year as a month mainly devoted to holidays, and celebrating various publications, before things were disrupted, but...

Dream Lover  is a thriller written and directed by Nicholas Kazan (son of the legendary director Elia Kazan, and himself an Academy Award no...

The first Crime Dossier created by Dennis Wheatley and J.G. Links was Murder off Miami (in the US, File on Bolitho Blane ) and it proved to ...

Cellar Door is a fairly recent American film which takes a situation with a number of rather familiar ingredients and and manages to make s...

I vividly remember reading H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, aged about 12 or 13, after borrowing the book from my school library. I wa...

No 'Friday Forgotten Book' today, because I want to pay a personal tribute to my brother-in-law Andrew Shanks, who died on Tuesday. ...

  I'm just back from a lovely trip to the Scottish Isles, which although overshadowed by other things, provided a scenic reminder of jus...

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