'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Richard Hull was the name under which R.H. Sampson, one of Britain's few crime-writing accountants, wrote rather unorthodox fiction f...

Dark Places , first screened last year, stars (and is produced by) Charlize Theron, and is based on a book by that gifted author Gillian Fly...

In  Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle created such an entrancing character that the scope for exploring his potential and discussing his a...

There is, it seems to me, increasing interest in collecting crime fiction. This is reflected in a new Pan Macmillan  blog post on the su...

Another Forgotten Book today from one of my favourite maestros of the Golden Age. First published in 1944, Till Death Do Us Part is a very ...

I'm back from an exhilarating and unforgettable Bouchercon in New Orleans - wow, what a city, what a convention! So many highlights, ...

It's been many years since I last watched John Huston's legendary private eye movie, The Maltese Falcon , so when I came across it a...

Deep in the Wood is a short but intriguing Italian film, which I watched in a sub-titled version. It was made last year, and originally tit...

Back in May 2014, I wrote about The Great Orme Terror  a truly eccentric Golden Age thriller, and on Friday I took another look at the Gr...

Is The Mystery of the Yellow Room a forgotten book? That's very debatable. It was once a bestseller, one of the most famous crime stori...