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...

I’ve not seen a single episode of the BBC’s long-running series Dalziel and Pascoe and, I must admit, I’ve never wanted to. There’s somethi...

Forgive the horrible cover -- I always try to post the edition I read, and this is it! Seriously, my opinion on Sayers changes with every...

With Murder on the Orient Express still in the news, and about to be dropped in the USA, some themed mini reviews are in order. So here are ...

It was news to me that Michael Bond (1926-2017), the creator of Paddington Bear, wrote a series of comic crime novels in his last three dec...

I'm lucky enough to be married to the most understanding person in the world. Alan didn't mind when I described the Murder on the Or...

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