Dorothy L. Sayers

Serious entertainment

28 May 2022 9:00 am

What a weird lot crime writers are. I don’t come to this conclusion lightly, since I’m a crime writer myself,…

The thrill of the chase

20 June 2020 9:00 am

A guide to reading in lockdown. My involvement with crime and mystery fiction started when I was four. The first…

The wonder of Wodehouse

23 May 2020 9:00 am

Everyone knows a Lord Emsworth. Mine lives south of the river and wears caterpillars in his hair and wine on…

Poirot won’t be drawn

No sex, please, in the Detection Club

16 May 2015 9:00 am

‘The crime novel,’ said Bertolt Brecht, ‘like the world itself, is ruled by the English.’ He was thinking of the…

Why a trillion dollars of dividends is a milestone worth celebrating

1 March 2014 9:00 am

Dividends paid by listed companies around the world passed $1 trillion for the first time last year, we learn from…