Friday, August 26, 2016

G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Knew Too Much

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The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1922 collection of a dozen short stories by G.K. Chesterton, eight of which feature Horne Fisher, a man wh...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

Matt Helm: The Removers

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The Removers was the third of Donald Hamilton’s Matt Helm spy thrillers. The first thing you need to understand when approaching the Mat...
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Saturday, August 13, 2016

J. J. Connington’s The Boat-House Riddle

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The Boat-House Riddle was the sixth of J. J. Connington’s Sir Clinton Driffield mysteries. It was published in 1931, at a time when Conn...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Guy Boothby's The Lust of Hate

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The Lust of Hate was the third of the five Dr Nikola novels written by Guy Boothby (1867-1905). Boothby was an Australian writer who enj...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

John le Carré’s The Looking Glass War

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The Looking Glass War was John le Carré’s fourth novel and also the fourth to feature his most famous character, British spy George Smil...
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Monday, August 1, 2016

G.K. Chesterton's The Donnington Affair

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The Donnington Affair is an intriguing example of a detective story with multiple authors (a idea that would enjoy a considerable vogue ...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Anthony Abbot's About the Murder of Geraldine Foster

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Charles Fulton Oursler (1893-1952) wrote eight detective novels under the name Anthony Abbot. All feature New York Police Commissioner Th...