Cristie Lansing had two problems. Firstly, she couldn’t spell her forename, but her main problem was the fact that she had been madly in love with Steven Hazard for the best part of her adult life – a man who was unfortunately married to the ...

The death of a colleague’s husband – albeit in name only – leads Minnie Ward from the Variety Palace Theatre and private investigator Albert Easterbrook to begin the hunt for a murderer. The trail soon(ish) leads them to a strange society of s...

St Orran’s Cove, five miles from Penmouth on the west coast of England, is usually a peaceful fishing town, but it has come to the attention of Desmond Merrion, a Captain of Naval Intelligence, as the source of information that is being received by th...

“I sometimes do things that will expose the weakness of the police theory. I sometimes cross-examine a witness to bring them face to face with physical conditions which demonstrate the fallacy of his testimony, but I don’t go around planting evidenc...

April is here – it’s been a busy month at work and I’m currently struggling with an end-of-term (technically start-of-holiday) cold. Hopefully by the time this posts, it will have disappeared and I can get on with plenty more reading, um, I mean all the household and gardening jobs that I need to do.

Meanwhile, it’s been an odd sort of month for my reading. Five new...