Death of My Aunt  (1929) by C.H.B. Kitchin.  Death of My Aunt  was published by the Hogarth Press, and with its droll narrative style aimed...

Scouring my bookshelves for something seasonal to blog about in the run-up to Hallowe’en, I saw several contenders. I knew that everyone wo...

Chris Mooney, not the journalist, is a Boston-based thriller writer who has sold over a million books. Mooney has been praised by all the ...

So many of my friends love John Dickson Carr that, although it wasn’t conscious, the fact that I haven’t read a single one of his novels un...

In his podcast on Alfred Hitchcock, Adam Roche laments that Stage Fright (1950) is 'less of a Hitchcock, and more like an Agatha Christi...

‘Too Clever by Half’ (1939) by G.D.H. and M. Cole . A short story featuring a locked-room puzzle, although we are told the murderer at the ...

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