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Forgotten Book - Uncle PaulUncle Paul was Celia Fremlin's second novel, published in 1959 after the tremendous success of her debut, The Hours Before Dawn ,...
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Lessons in Crime - a new British Library anthology of academic mysteriesMy latest anthology, Lessons in Crime:academic mysteries , has just been published by the British Library in the Crime Classics...
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Alibis in the Archive 2024Alibis in the Archive 2024 was a truly exhilarating weekend. The weekend was a sell-out, with quite a few crime writers in the...
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Forgotten Book - Saturday GamesA long time ago, probably back in the mid to late 70s, I read a rave review or recommendation somewhere of Brown Meggs' Saturday Games ,...
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Peter Lewis R.I.P.I was extremely sorry to learn of the death, on 25 May, of my friend Peter Lewis, after a long and difficult illness. I first met Peter and...
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Bodies from the Library 2024This year's Bodies from the Library was a great success, and I gather that audience numbers are now back to pre-pandemic levels, which...
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Forgotten Book - And So to MurderAnd So to Murder , first published in 1941 is one of Carter Dickson's (i.e. John Dickson Carr's) novels about Sir Henry Merrivale,...
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A Bellini at Harry's Bar and other literary inspirationsI'm back from a lovely holiday which combined a yacht tour of the Croatian islands between Split and the north of the country with a...
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Watcher - 2022 film reviewI've never been to Bucharest and although I'd like to go, there's nothing in Watcher , a 2022 film set in the city, that does any favours...
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Forgotten Book - Door Nails Never DieThere were quite a few eccentric book titles during the Golden Age and Door Nails Never Die has to be right up there with the weirdest of...
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Topkapi - 1964 film reviewEight years ago, I wrote an introduction for Eric Ambler's The Light of Day , an Edgar-winning novel that appeared in the British Library's...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death - 1984 TV movie reviewThe Masks of Death is a TV movie from 1984 with an impressive array of contributors. The director was Roy Ward Baker, veteran of...
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Forgotten Book - The Unfinished ClueMy first experience with Georgette Heyer's detective novels was disappointing. Penhallow is, I think, widely regarded as a poor book. But...
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An E.C.R. Lorac exhibitionNot so long ago, the name of E.C.R. Lorac was unknown to most present day crime fans. Lorac, whose real name was Carol Rivett, and...
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CrimeFest 2024I've always enjoyed CrimeFest, one of the friendliest and least cliquey of literary festivals, and this year's event in Bristol,...
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Forgotten Book - Crime Wave at Little CornfordHerbert Adams (1874-1958) published more than fifty mysteries between 1924 and the year of his death; a couple of books appeared...
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The Life of Crime in paperback!This week sees the publication of the paperback edition of The Life of Crime, which is significantly expanded (to the tune of about 7000...
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A research tripAt the moment, I'm working on a stand-alone crime novel, something quite different from my other books, but with a strong puzzle element....
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Forgotten Book - The Madman TheoryThe Madman Theory is an Ellery Queen novel. Except that it doesn't feature Ellery Queen the character and it wasn't written by Ellery...
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The Wild Atlantic WayI'm back in England after a short holiday on the west coast of Ireland, somewhere I've not visited since a great trip more than thirty years...
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Lloyd and Hill - 2001 ITV reviewJill McGown must have been hugely, and deservedly, excited, when ITV filmed her novel A Shred of Evidence as a pilot for a new...
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Forgotten Book - Little Brother FateA while ago, in one of those bookshops that have sprung up at so many National Trust properties, I came across a green Penguin...
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The Alphabet Murders - 1965 film reviewOne of the very first crime novels I ever read was Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders . I absolutely loved the story. It was my...
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A History of Violence - 2005 film reviewI first watched David Cronenberg's film A History of Violence a year or two after its release and I enjoyed it. After a gap of more...
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Forgotten Book - The Etruscan Net aka The Family TombThroughout the 1960s, Michael Gilbert published only four novels - although this very industrious writer was, as ever, far from idle...
