Raymond Chandler
High life
Gstaad That’s all we needed in a great year: copyright has expired on The Great Gatsby. Some Fitzgerald wannabe has…
The thrill of the chase
A guide to reading in lockdown. My involvement with crime and mystery fiction started when I was four. The first…
The death of cosy Christie
This is not Midsomer Murders. The new film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express is thick with…
A sex vampire on wheels
The title of this book tells you a lot. Jack Sutherland, who grew up in London and Los Angeles, worked…
Bark and no bite
With so much Nordic noir around, it’s a relief to return to the granddaddy of them all, the hard-boiled private…
Bringing Bond to book
Matthew Woodcock reminds us that 007 was a man of letters too
