To a great extent, children were neither seen nor heard in Golden Age detective fiction, though they certainly pop up in Dorothy L. Sayers ...

At the time of its publication, The Blood of an Englishman (2014) was advertised as something of an "event" in crime writer MC Be...

There is a place Where I can go When I feel low When I feel blue And it's my mind .... In my mind there's no sorrow Don't you kn...

When my friend  Rupert Heath of Dean Street Press died a month ago, he had five Moray Dalton titles in the hopper.  I had worked diligentl...

When as a young teen, around 14 or 15, I decided that I wanted to start reading "Great Literature," I went looking for the longest...

My friend, the publisher Rupert Heath of Dean Street Press, has died.  We had worked together on projects on projects for nearly a decade no...

Novelist MC Beaton , who died on the last day of 2019 at the age of 83, was an extremely prolific writer, and not just of mysteries.  If I c...