Seventeen scenarios of skulduggery, stealing, and slaughter in the British Library Crime Classics range, all centred on London, the finest city on god’s green Earth, and selected by the ne plus ultra of classic crime appreciation, Martin Edwards. It must have been a monster of a job assembling this, and Edwards is to be commended … Continue reading #1363: “I have a dozen fresh people call on me every month with queer stories…” – Capital Crimes: London Mysteries [ss] (2015) ed. Mar...| The Invisible Event
An earlier British Library Crime Classics short story collection today, with The Long Arm of the Law [ss] (2017) featuring 15 stories of professional police selected by the hugely knowledgeable Martin Edwards. Like, I imagine, a lot of GAD readers, I was drawn to the genre by the histrionics of private investigators like Hercule Poirot … Continue reading #1318: “That’s the worst of these detective stories; every criminal knows that trick.” – The Long Arm of the Law [ss] (2017) ed. M...| The Invisible Event
Most of you will know the drill by now with these roundup posts, but just in case you’re new to all of this… What is #MurderEveryMonday? #MurderEveryMonday is a book cover sharing activity and it is nice to hear that it has spread on to other social media platforms too, such as Blue Sky and […]| crossexaminingcrime