The Colonel, in the Garden, with the Impact of Wry Melancholy: Margaret Mayhew’s Detective Novels

May 11, 2022

I recently read six novels by Margaret Mayhew, after stumbling across her work in the back catalogue of Joffe Books …

Writing in Sequence: A Guest Post by Penelope Wallace

October 5, 2020

This is a guest post by Penelope Wallace, author of the “Ragaris” novels. Penelope and I have been taking about …

July 4, 2020

Murder to Music was published in 1959, the first novel of a promising detective novelist who apparently then left the …

September 14, 2019

Textual criticism isn’t a discipline often employed in the study of detective fiction, as far as I know. The establishing …

July 7, 2018

Given that Cover Her Face is a P.D. James novel named after a line from The Duchess of Malfi, and …

May 28, 2018

Here’s another detective novel paperback which seems to drastically misunderstand the story it contains. Or has it? After my previous …

May 2, 2018

Whilst rummaging around the primary texts for my current research project (a study of the novels of Agatha Christie), I …

August 25, 2015

This is a guest post by A.J. Hall, a lawyer, sailor and writer. She can be found on Twitter @legionseagle …

October 3, 2013

This is a guest post by A.J. Hall, a lawyer, sailor and writer. She can be found on Twitter @legionseagle …