Subject-Murder (1945) is a detective novel by Clifford Witting based on his personal experience a...

It is the aftermath of the Second World War and the country is in the grips of post-war austerity...

At a quiet resort on the French Riviera Anthony Tolworth, companion and agent of the exiled king ...

Witting's second Inspector Charlton mystery, first published in 1937, is set in Paulsfield (clear...

Angela Pusey had sung her last song. At 3:30 one fine afternoon, a small blow to the back of the ...

First published in 1934, In The Cairngorms is Nan Shepherd's only book of poems. It took her twen...

Undertones is a ground-breaking reference book on jazz in crime fiction. As the opening historica...

The scene is The Blue Boar in the High Street, Lulverton. The occasion: the stag party planned to...

Captain Paul Darac of the Brigade Criminelle arrives at a crime scene to find a woman's mutilated...

In T. S. Eliot's own words in 1922: 'The leather bound notebook is one which I started in 1909 an...

It is slowly and insidiously that evil comes to the cathedral city of Storminster. Old scandals a...

The creator of the Arsene Lupin, Maurice Leblanc, was born in Rouen in 1864. At the request of a ...