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

John Rutherford, bookseller and sometime fiction writer, discovers the bludgeoned corpse of a pol...

It is 1940 and Mrs Mudge, the cleaning lady is busy tidying the Little Theatre in Lulverton, whic...

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

A go-to destination for students of the finer things in life, the Villa des Pinales is set high i...

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

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

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

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

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

The lost art of brass rubbing, crooked antiques dealers, and smuggling all figure in this tale of...

Alfred Doblin (1878-1957) composed his epic trilogy of South America under difficult circumstance...