Agatha Christie: A Murder is Announced | Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
Once more a murder is announced—for the benefit and enjoyment of Miss Marple.| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
Once more a murder is announced—for the benefit and enjoyment of Miss Marple.| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
… courtesy of the British Library. Two more sleeps before opening though.| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
I’ve had a bit of a rest for a couple of months, during which my blog traffic has gone through the roof, which fact should probably teach me something about leaving well alone, but hasn’t. Here I am back with, … Continue reading →| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
Every month on Past Offences a merry band of bloggers read and review the criminous output of a particular year. I call it Crimes of the Century, and this April we were looking at 1977. Fittingly enough, our first entry … Continue reading →| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
(aka Blogger tries clickbait headlines) Earlier in the week I announced that I’d completed reviewing all 106 in the CWA’s list of the 100 best crime and mystery books, and promised to let you know which books I thought genuinely … Continue reading →| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
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
Since beginning Past Offences I have been quietly working my way through the CWA’s 1990 list of the 100 best crime books, a list which begins or end with The Four Just Men (#100) and ends or begins with The … 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
Every month at Past Offences an intrepid band of bloggers proffers their opinions on a particular year on crime fiction. I call it Crimes of the Century. The stakes were high this time. Regular pla…| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
