There’s a new series on Drama about The Pinkertons. It’s a story I wish I’d told.
Agatha Christie on roller skates – and poisons – fears of a gang war in Japan and murder in India
Bloody gang wars have made El Salvador a homicide hotspot with 43 murder sin one day – and some new crime fiction reviewed in The Guardian
The term ‘Tartan Noir’ may be a handy label but it doesn’t do justice to the varied amount of crime writing from Scotland- and do we really need a label anyway?
I’ve been busy doing some guest blogs
A look at Time’s coverage of an horrific murder, an author talks about police cutbacks and whether they effect his fiction, The end of CSI and a new crime magazine to be launched
So, clay pipes from Shakespeare’s garden have been found to contain traces of Cannabis Resin, eh? Check it out here: Cannabis pipes Does that mean old Will […]
Academics construct a formula to solve Agatha Christie mysteries, classic cosy crime makes a comeback, a suspected ritual murder in Florida enrages Wiccans, true crime from the Victorian era, an author suspects Peter Sutcliffe may have more murders on his conscience and a round-up of translated crime
A couple of crime-related stories that have caught my eye this week.
The death of a famed true crime writer, a pictorial look at this year’s Harrogate crime festival and a bloody shooting in London possibly linked to a Russian mystery