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Disappearance at Clifton Hill - 2019 film reviewI have vivid memories of my one and only trip to Niagara Falls. It was on a coach trip from the Toronto Bouchercon a few years back and...
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - 2022 film reviewI enjoyed Knives Out , a nice escapist whodunit. In commenting on my blog post about the film, the eminent critic Michael Dirda made some...
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Forgotten Book - The Mendip MysteryLynn Brock (the main pen-name of the Irish novelist and playwright Allister McAllister) was a major figure in Golden Age detection and his...
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Sepulchre Street - the first week's reviewsMany thanks to all the bloggers who took part in the blog tour organised by my publishers to celebrate the arrival of...
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Eye in the Sky - 2015 film reviewEye in the Sky is an outstanding action film, much of its strength deriving from the way it balances high-stakes drama with an...
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Celebrations and CrimeFestCrimeFest was a wonderful weekend of celebrations and catching up with old friends as well as meeting some very pleasant new people. For...
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Forgotten Book - Deadly PatternI enjoyed Douglas Clark's The Libertines sufficiently to seek out another in his long series of police procedurals featuring Masters and Green,...
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Sepulchre Street, Crimes of Cymru, and more...I'm having quite a week. A workshop for writers in Frodsham on Sunday, followed by an Anthony award nomination for The Life of...
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The Man with the Golden.....Derringer!I had an extremely surreal moment at Dublin Airport last week as I waited for a connecting flight to Manchester after travelling back from...
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Forgotten Book - Obelists at SeaA forgotten book with a difference today, since this week sees a new edition of C. Daly King's Obelists at Sea , published by Otto...
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A Trip to RememberI'm back home, reminding myself how to get over jetlag, after a truly exhilarating trip to the United States. I had a packed itinerary...
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Forgotten Book - The Windy Side of the LawI'm not sure why I've never got around to reading Sara Woods' detective novels until now. The books were a fixture in the local library...
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I Came By - 2022 film reviewI Came By is a recent psychological suspense movie which takes a situation that has become overly familiar in the crime genre and...
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The Daggers - and Zooming AroundI'm back home, briefly, from the CWA annual conference in York, a great weekend made even more enjoyable by the fact that two of my books...
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer - 2017 film reviewThe Killing of a Sacred Deer is a film by the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos which stars Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell, and the...
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Forgotten Book - The LibertinesDouglas Clark is an author I haven't discussed on this blog before. Until I read his 1978 novel The Libertines , I'd only read one of...
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The Quest for Jack GriffithsI bet most readers of this blog, knowledgeable as they are, will not be overly familiar with the name of the crime writer Jack...
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Anne Perry R.I.P.I was sorry to learn of the death last week of the crime novelist Anne Perry. I first met her about 25 years ago, but of course I already...
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Forgotten Book - Crime of the CrosswordJohn Garland's Crime of the Crossword , which dates from 1940, is an obscure book. I have Lucy Bratton to thank for drawing my attention...
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Blackstone Fell in paperback!Today sees the UK publication in paperback of Blackstone Fel l, the third Rachel Savernake novel - with the fourth,...
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Remploy - The Deerstalker Series and Melvyn BarnesMy recent post about the Hodder crime reprints of the 1960s prompted Melvyn Barnes to get in touch with info about a subsequent...
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Cracks - 2009 film reviewCracks is a film set in a girls' boarding school in the 1930s. It's a psychological thriller which I'd never heard of before, but...
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Forgotten Book - Sweet AdelaideSweet Adelaide , first published in 1980, was the second of Julian Symons' three Victorian mysteries. He'd deserted the contemporary...
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The Missing Page - No Peace for the Wicked and other short storiesThere's a wonderful episode of Hancock's Half Hou r, 'The Missing Page', in which Tony Hancock (of whom I was a great fan) is tormented by...
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Hodder's Classics of Detection and Adventure series and its successorsThe British Library's Crime Classics are, I imagine, by far the bestselling series of 'crime classic' novels and short story anthologies of...
