It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war.  The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a ni...

This is a deplorable book, full of preposterous characters, not one of whom can be admired even for his vice.  Professional detection is nil...

" I suppose you heard about Alan Clutton-Brock's wife?  A bad job, & he has two small kids, too. " " I used to see ...

Anthony Boucher , longtime dean of American crime fiction critics, opined that Rex Stout 's best productions in mystery fiction after ...

" There is no real security anywhere.  We pretend that there is.  Things like railway time-tables and regular hours keep up the fiction...

In the summer of 1939, as Europe sped toward a calamitous conflagration, English mystery writer  John Street (aka John Rhode, Miles Burton a...

"There is something about the idea of a very successful author stealing his material from an unsuccessful author that seems to appeal t...