Set in late 1923,  The Moor  (1998) is the fourth in Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell series. It sees married couple Mary Russell and Sherlock ...

A fun tribute to the Sherlock Holmes canon, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter (2019) is set in a fantasy world of magic, steampunk, and L...

Together, Carlo Fruttero (1926-2012) and Franco Lucentini (1920-2002) wrote several crime novels, short stories, and collections of critici...

Verdict of Twelve (1940) by Raymond Postgate . An excellent psychological mystery, with two strands: the puzzle of a child's murder, and...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes  (1893) by Arthur Conan Doyle . This collection of short stories was supposed to provide the final word on t...

This review also appears on the International Crime Fiction Association blog . Intellect describes its series  Fan Phenomena  as being ‘p...

I must know the opening scene to The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-2) by heart. Of course, I’ve read the book at least half a dozen time...

A festive-themed look at five short stories! ‘The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle’ (1892) by Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is at ...

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson . Ian Rankin considers this a detective novel -- and the best one...

The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins. T.S. Eliot called The Moonstone ‘the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective no...

There’s a terrible vice I need to confess. It’s not quite as bad as judging a book by its cover, but in many ways, for me, at least, it’s w...