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Today sees the release of my latest book from the British Library, The Golden Age of Classic Crime Quiz Book: Over 500 Questions, Puzzles and Mysteries. It is available to buy directly from the British Library, or alternatively it can be purchased via Amazon, Waterstones, Foyles, Bookshop.Org, Blackwells (who offer international shipping) and if you’re in the UK, hopefully your ...

Today I am reviewing the next two releases in the series of Mr Men/Little Miss and Agatha Christie mashups. I have previously written about the other four titles in the series: Little Miss Marple: Muddle at the Vicarage (2025) Mr Poirot: Mischief on the Nile (2025) Little Miss Marple: Bump in the Library (2026) Mr Poirot: Mystery on the Opulent Express (2026) The Mr Men/Lit...

Since the early days of crime fiction dogs have been a part of the picture, on the page and in the lives of the authors who wrote such works. Some authors had pet dogs such as Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Georgette Heyer. James Norman, in fact, used his dogs as a means of discouraging dinner guests from returning, by having his pets lick everyone’s dishes clean be...

It might seem a little early to be reading a Christmas-set mystery, but I figured it might be useful to share my thoughts on this book (especially given how good it is) ahead of the Christmas season, so folks have time to buy it. I have a few more Christmas-set mysteries coming up in November for my Patreon supporters, so by the end of that month I will have a few more titles to...

Since April I have been dipping into the crime fiction reviews of Barzun and Taylor, as collected in A Catalogue of Crime. Working alphabetically, I have looked at authors, A through F, and today I am going to add three more letters, G, H, and I.