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This is the first of Terrance’s books to be published in my lifetime, on 12 July 1976. The indicia says it was published simultaneously in G...

The second novel in the Mounties trilogy was published simultaneously in hardback and paperback on 8 April 1976, a little more than two mon...

Reading Bookish   and its brief, telling reference to a man who walks into the sea because someone has his letters prompted me to try this, ...

This is a novelisation of the first series of the TV drama of the same name, created by Mark Gatiss and co-written by Matthew Sweet (both of...

The wife and children were generous with my annual appraised (or "Father's Day"). I got a lie in, a badge of a smiley fried eg...

We know from the off that Bartholomew “Brat” Farrar is a crook. He’s a young American hustler, sometimes working as a groom or blacksmith, o...

This is ideal holiday reading, a fast-moving, relatively concise murder mystery from the creator of Broadchurch and in a similar style. It b...

Big Finish have announced that June 2025 will see the release of Space Security Service , a series of audio adventures produced by me and st...

I’ve completed Part One of this enormous, comprehensive and highly readable volume, the 350 pages that cover production of the 1960s TV seri...

I'm the guest on the latest Cinema Limbo podcast, this time - for my many sins - to discuss the 2009 black comedy Observe and Report , ...

"'If this were a detective story, he'd be the murderer for a certainty, though,' said Barnes. 'They always pick on the ...

"My gnomic utterances," said Fen severely, "reduce themselves to three: that I do not believe in the crime passionnel ; that ...