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Where else, Major, might one find a London bobby, a solicitor’s clerk, a baronet, an ex-Army chap, a greengrocer’s daughter and a – a bohemian eccentric, not to mention a chemistry student – all gathered in one room to discuss … Continue reading →| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling. But this house was the essence of modernity. There were no dark corners – no possible sliding panels – … Continue reading →| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
‘I am, in fact, something of a poet. A poet of fear.’ Lucy Moffat, the translator of The Iron Chariot for new publisher The Abandoned Bookshop got in touch a while back to see if I’d be interested in taking a … Continue reading →| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
Men with brains and ability can be found all over the world, moreover there are always others coming on to fill their places, but such Jacobean rooms as this are not to be found all over the world, nor are … Continue reading →| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews