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...

by Mary A couple of years before I left England I went to a fancy dress party disguised as a penguin, complete with beak hastily construc...

by Mary Being particularly fond of mazes, this title naturally leapt out at me and indeed a maze plays a major part in the plot given...

by Mary During the last couple of weeks my eye was drawn to three stories with a common though unlikely element linking crime, WWII, and ...

by Eric A generally accepted rule of thumb is that a novel can be considered historical if it is set at least fifty years in the past.  Tha...