Tag Archives: Nicholas Blake

Tuesday Night Bloggers: Favourite Sleuthing Couples

Posted on February 21, 2017 by

This week I decided to look at sleuthing couples in crime fiction, as part of this month’s Tuesday Night Blogger theme, love. I think for most readers many of my choices won’t be surprising, but I guess one of the … Continue reading →

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The Widow’s Cruise (1959) by Nicholas Blake

Posted on January 13, 2017 by

‘The only thing I have against cruise life is that it’s turning us all into busybodies and gossips.’ Vintage Mystery Scavenger Hunt Item: Body of Water For Rich’s Crimes of the Century Challenge this month, with the chosen year of … Continue reading →

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Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries (2015) ed. Martin Edwards

Posted on October 29, 2016 by

Vintage Mystery Scavenger Hunt Item: Any Other Holiday Object Invariably late to the party as usual, I have finally got round to reading one of the British Library Crime Classics short story collections. There were a few familiar stories in … Continue reading →

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Book of the Month: September 2016

Posted on September 30, 2016 by

This month’s reads have featured a return to a lot of familiar faces as I began the month with Henry Wade’s The Verdict of You All (1926) and continued my exploration of Molly Thynne’s work reading The Case of Sir … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Night Bloggers: Children in Crime – Week 4

Posted on September 27, 2016 by

Today is the Tuesday Night Bloggers’ final look at children in crime from child victims and sleuths to killers. It has been an interesting month collecting the posts and I have learnt a lot about authors I have not heard … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Night Bloggers: How to Stay Safe at School, College and University – according to Detective Fiction

Posted on June 7, 2016 by

A few weeks ago I gleaned advice on going on holiday, working in a theatre and visiting a country house from different crime fiction novels, so to kick start the Tuesday Night Blogger’s month long look at academic mysteries I … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction (2016) by Lisa Hopkins

Posted on May 16, 2016 by

Source: Review Copy (Palgrave Macmillan) Spoiler Alert: In the fifth paragraph there is a major spoiler in regards to Harriet Rutland’s Blue Murder. This book immediately caught my interest, as I have been aware of the allusions detective fiction writers … Continue reading →

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10 (ish) Christmas Mysteries You Should Try

Posted on December 11, 2015 by

Amidst Christmas preparations, hopefully you will all still have a little time to crack open a book and some of you may even want to get into that Christmassy mood by reading a Christmas set detective novel. Nothing like a … Continue reading →

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The Morning After Death (1966) by Nicholas Blake

Posted on November 19, 2015 by

Despite sounding like a grief self-help book (and believe me a fair few pop up when you try to search for this on Amazon), The Morning After Death (1966) is the final novel by Nicholas Blake featuring his fictional detective … Continue reading →

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