'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

The Little Walls was published in 1955, and the following year, it won the CWA's Crossed Red Herring Award for the best crime novel of ...

A quick trip to London for two contrasting events began brilliantly, when I received an email telling me that The Golden Age of Murder ha...

The British Library has been very active on the publishing front over the past year or so. Quite apart from its Crime Classics series, it ha...

Peter and Margaret Lewis have been good friends of mine for more than 25 years. They have a distinguished track record in academe, and have ...

The Riddle of the Sands is a classic novel of 1903 by Erskine Childers which is widely regarded as one of the first notable spy novels. I s...

Watching Carol Reed’s superb 1949 film The Third Man again, not long after reading Eric Ambler’s novel of ten years earlier, The Mask of ...

It seems odd to class Eric Ambler’s The Mask of Dimitrios as a Forgotten Book. It is widely acknowledged as one of the great espionage thri...