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Showing posts with label detectives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label detectives. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Review: Britain's Greatest Detective by Nell Darby

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Synopsis: From his offices at Basinghall Street in the City of London, Henry Slater presided over Britain's best-known private detectiv...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Why Librarians Are Natural Born Detectives

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From Crimereads : Many a mystery novel featuring an amateur sleuth places a librarian in that role. With good reason—outside of law enforcem...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

Put that in your pipe: why the Maigret novels are still worth savouring

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From  The Guardian : As a six-year reissue project of the series reaches completion, Scottish author Graeme Macrae Burnet explains why Sime...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Me and My Detective - Authors Reveal

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From The Guardian :  Creating a long-running series featuring a much-loved character can be both a blessing and a curse. As time passes i...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

Review: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

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Synopsis: Enthralled by the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Victorian readers around the world developed a fascination with eccentric detec...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

The Golden Age Detective Fiction Renaissance

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From  CrimeReads :  Martin Edwards celebrates a new era of Golden Age mysteries, and takes us through the challenges of bringing beloved...
Monday, June 17, 2019

Gumshoes: A Dictionary of Fictional Detectives

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The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. Many o...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Inspector George Gently Books by Alan Hunter

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Another set of books which inspired a TV series are Alan Hunter's Inspector George Gently series, starring Martin Shaw (of TV series ...