by Mary Before Mr Maywrite and I took to tramping down the dark and dangerous alleys and hidden courtyards of fiction featuring murder, m...

by Eric Have you been appreciating bats the past couple of weeks? If not there's still plenty of time. October is Bat Appreciation Mo...

by Mary The Dangerfield family is an ancient one, having resided in their mansion Friocksheim since before the Norman Conquest. Their titul...

by Mary London's Praed Street is typical of thousands of unremarkable urban streets, narrow, not too attractive, and occupied by reside...

by Mary Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield is being shown around the extensive grounds of Ravensthorpe, home to Cecil Chasewater and h...

by Mary Dr Ringwood, serving as locum tenens for an old friend recovering from appendicitis, returns to his lodgings in a pea-souper so...

by Eric I'm reading a book by Georges Simenon, author of the Inspector Maigret mysteries. The Cat, however, isn't a mystery. It...