Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler and his contrarian cat Taki
Gstaad That’s all we needed in a great year: copyright has expired on The Great Gatsby. Some Fitzgerald wannabe has…
A choice of classic crime fiction
A guide to reading in lockdown. My involvement with crime and mystery fiction started when I was four. The first…
The death of cosy Christie
This is not Midsomer Murders. The new film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express is thick with…
Hitting rock bottom in LA
The title of this book tells you a lot. Jack Sutherland, who grew up in London and Los Angeles, worked…
Philip Marlowe returns with bark but no bite
With so much Nordic noir around, it’s a relief to return to the granddaddy of them all, the hard-boiled private…
James Bond, author
Matthew Woodcock reminds us that 007 was a man of letters too
