In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel

On the island of Albany of the coast of Dorset, much digging is going on. The island thrives on their quarry, others intend to exploit the oil buried under the land and Martin Cotterill, archaeologist/d...

Right, May was a bit rubbish. Far too much work to do, a bad back, falling off a step that scraped my leg really badly (but could have been a lot worse) and a third complaint that I am so not going to tell you about. Oh, and on top of those things interfering with my reading, I decided to start another trip around the realms of Skyrim. And anyone who’s done that knows how muc...

Flamande is a legendary French thief, determined to get his hands on the mysterious “unicorn”, being carried by the diplomat Sir George Ramsden on a flight from France to Britain. Gasquet, the head of the Sûreté, has announced that he will also be ...

Jericho College is on summer break, but Carla James, professor of archaeology, is running a summer school for amateur archaeologists, looking at various aspects of local history, but the focus on the course soon settles on Meg Woodthorpe.

Every now and then, my Book Group decides not to read a book for the month – well, not a specific book, we read books all the time – but instead choose a “best of” category to discuss. I don’t always write them up – I’ve only written up the Top Tens from the 1930s and the 1940s – but I haven’t blogged much this month for various reasons so I thought I’d make up for it by doin...