“You’re a tiny bit damaged every time you unravel a murder case”, says Harry Hole in his debut thriller. “Unfortunately, as a rule there ar...

“There were so many things in the world she could not solve, but hopefully, she could solve this.”     This blog has not been my priority in...

  ‘The Lemesurier Inheritance’ (1923) by Agatha Christie Christie’s (and Hercule Poirot’s) take on  The Hound of the Baskervilles . Like the...

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 ...

Apologies for the longer and more autobiographical post than usual this time. Ruth Rendell!   I didn’t red Ruth Rendell until I was 19. Ther...

When my grandfather died in January, I inherited his collection of 1940s and 1950s crime fiction, and am reading through them. I started wit...

  Surprise! I warned you this blog would be sporadic. COVID-19 and associated problems have wrought havoc on people close to me and on me, a...