In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel

“Oh, shut up, Geoffrey. If you don’t stop accusing me of murder, I’m going to kill you.”

Carol Quinn is a serial killer. Seven murders have been attributed to her – all killed for perfectly good reasons in her mind – and ...

Is there such a thing as a perfect crime? Not when Inspector Graves of Scotland Yard is on the case – or indeed the seven cases.

Whether it be a locked room mystery, a serial killer or an unbreakable alibi, there is no case too comp...

And it’s the return of the feature that all the cool authors are taking part in – HINT! – namely the Five Books interview. Victoria Dowd kicked things off last month, and the first of, hopefully, three authors this month is J S Savage. John is the a...

Haile Rogers is looking forward to the opening night of Green Apples, debuting on Broadway. Not entirely sure what the pull of a British comedy of manners would be, but I’m no historian of the American theatre. Anyway, Carol Blanton, the s...

The local bookshop, Shelf Determination, in Fethering is branching out with a major section of the book devoted to crime fiction, of all things. Well, it’s the idea of the husband, Roly, of the owner, who has a little too much time on th...