The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944) by Edmund Crispin. Crispin’s debut is a good place to start. A marvellous meta locked room mystery  fe...

Today’s mini-reviews, the twenty-fifth set brining the total number of this pithy summaries to 100, are all television productions! Cas...

Northanger Abbey (1817) by Jane Austen. Arguably the first metatextual detective novel, Austen’s witty satire is ostensibly a romance st...

Rosemary Harris, now in her nineties, is not a particularly well-known name any more but, once upon a time, she was a popular and prolific ...

This is my first blog post in a while, and I’m putting it on  my main website  and  my review blog . Over the last couple of months, I’v...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes  (1905) by Arthur Conan Doyle.  I’m currently rereading the original Holmes canon in order – just for fun – a...

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...