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
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
Have wanted to read Edgar Wallace’s ‘The Four Just Men‘ for a long time. Finally got to read it. Interesting thriller. Probably the original vigilante novel in which four people try to punish criminals who escape the law. Doesn’t have the same power today, as it must have had when it first came out. But […]| Vishy’s Blog