'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

The Robthorne Mystery was first published in 1934, when its author, John Rhode, was at the peak of his powers. He was a popular member of t...

Cast a Dark Shadow is sometimes referred to as a British film noir. I don't think that's an illuminating description. Really, it...

The Chase is a drab title for a film based on a book with a rather better title - The Black Path of  Fear . But it's by no means a drab...

The Silent Partner is a Canadian film from 1978 based on a Danish novel, Think of a Number , by Anders Bodelsen. The script was an early wo...

This week came an announcement that gave me a lot of pleasure. I've signed a deal with Head of Zeus to publish two more books set in the...

Bloodlands , the first episode of which aired on the BBC last night, has a great title and is a four-part thriller set in Northern Ireland. ...

Ronald Knox was an important and interesting figure in the history of detective fiction. He pioneered Sherlockian scholarship and popularise...

In the very early days of this blog, I mentioned the TV series featuring Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen. I acquired the shows as a box set and h...

I was lucky enough to grow up in the Sixties, an exciting time for popular culture in Britain. The Beatles, Bond movies, The Prisoner , and ...

Sudden Death was published in 1932, at a period when Freeman Wills Crofts was experimenting with the traditional detective story. Here he o...