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Sepulchre Street and the eDunnit award shortlistI'm truly delighted by the announcement today of the shortlist for the eDunnit award at CrimeFest this year, which as you can see from the...
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Ripley - Netflix TV reviewDo we really need another screen version of The Talented Mr Ripley ? I have mixed views. Part of me thinks that it would be good for...
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Forgotten Book - Death at Hallows EndThe starting point for Leo Bruce's 1965 Death at Hallows End is the mysterious disappearance of a solicitor. Duncan Humby seems to have...
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Basil Rathbone - and the Hollywood Baskervilles - guest post by Elizabeth CrowensToday, a guest post from Elizabeth Crowens, whose new book (above) has just been published by an excellent American firm, Level Best...
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Bullets over Broadway - 1994 film reviewAt his best, Woody Allen is a witty and clever writer and the 1994 film Bullets over Broadway , which he scripted (and later turned into a...
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Forgotten Book - Murder in Full FlightI wouldn't mind betting that quite a few of my knowledgeable blog readers have never heard of Marcus Magill, let alone read any of the...
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News about The Life of Crime and The Golden Age of MurderI'm delighted to bring exciting news. Well, exciting to me, anyway! I'm happy to announce not one but two new editions of my most successful...
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In Search of John Ferguson - and Ferguson's GangWriting this blog continues to give me great pleasure. That would be so even if hardly anyone ever looked at it, but in fact I've gained...
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Forgotten Book - Tea on SundayThis has been quite a month for the blog. March isn't over yet, and there have already been over 120,000 pageviews, by some distance...
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Burnt Offerings - 1976 film reviewThis is a blog about crime writing and crime fiction in its various forms, but of course the boundaries between crime and other genres,...
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Making an Exhibition of...All the Lonely PeopleWhen I walked into Cambridge University Library's new 'Murder by the Book' exhibition for a preview last Thursday evening, I didn't expect to...
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Forgotten Book - The Siege of Trencher's FarmCrime fiction is almost inevitably linked to violence of one kind or another. There aren't many truly victimless crimes and violence takes...
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Paul Charles - Adventures in Wonderland - reviewPaul Charles has combined a highly successful career in music as an agent, promoter, manager, and songwriter (one of his numbers was...
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An eventful weekLast week was eventful in more ways than one. This blog raced past a total of 3.5 million views - current figures are running at...
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Forgotten Book - Lion in the CellarPamela Branch's career as a crime writer was cut short by her early death from cancer in 1967, but although she only published four...
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Sally Stevens - I Sang ThatI'm no musician, but the music business has long fascinated me and it featured in a story called 'Eternally' that I wrote about twenty...
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John Pugmire R.I.P.I was very sorry to hear on Friday of the death of my friend John Pugmire. John's wife Helen told me he passed away on Thursday morning. I...
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Forgotten Book - Death of ColdDeath of Cold , which dates from 1956, was Leo Bruce's second novel about Carolus Deene (and I fear it rather crazily and...
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Eyes of Laura Mars - 1978 film reviewEyes of Laura Mars is an offbeat serial killer film that has a great deal going for it. For a start, the trendy fashion photographer...
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Books and Book NewsThe sun is shining and there's definitely a touch of spring in the air. After a winter of writing, I'm looking forward to various...
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File on Fenton and Farr by Q. PatrickFile on Fenton and Farr isn't a Forgotten Book but a Forgotten Crime Dossier. It was written by Q. Patrick (Richard Webb and...
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Forgotten Book - Strip Death NakedStrip Death Naked , first published in 1959, is a rather odd murder mystery. The author, Norman Longmate, worked for the BBC as a...
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Felicia's Journey - 1999 film reviewI first came across the name of William Trevor as a teenager, when a rave review of his novel The Children of Dynmouth prompted me to...
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Crippen & Landru's 30th birthdayLong before the British Library (and its many followers) started publishing Crime Classics, there was Crippen & Landru, a small press...
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Forgotten Book - The Murders Near MapletonSteve Barge, who blogs as The Puzzle Doctor, has done Golden Age mystery fans a big favour by reviving interest in the books of Brian Flynn...
