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Shakespeare Was A Crime Writer
My first trilogy, The Comeback Trail, was based in the music business in America. It was a simple tale of a washed-up singer who accidently kills his girlfriend and discovers that the act of killing enables him to write a hit song. To give this some context, I own a record label in the States called Gulf Coast Records, they say write about what you know. If I could just clarify, I am talking about music not murder, if that were the case this would be a confession not an article. I digress. The...
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Historical Heroes: Peter Tonkin on John le Carré
With John le Carré’s recent Silverview published posthumously, we thought it high time to examine the great author’s work, and in particular his anti-hero, George Smiley. Peter Tonkin, himself the author of a number of espionage novels, looks at his novels in the context of other spy writers.
Wanted: Women to Fight Crime!
Immediately after the end of World War Two, during the late 1940s, Britain police forces were recruiting, frantically.
What Lies Beneath…
As you emerge from the Northern Line at Clapham South underground station you can see, about a hundred yards away, a concrete pillbox of a building, on the common but very close to the busy A24.
A Responsibility to the Past
My new crime series is set in Clapham, south London, during the years immediately after the second World War, from 1946 to 1951. Its locations are real places clustered around Clapham Common at Clapham South Underground station. Some of these places are highly unusual, some still exist (although they have been repurposed) and others can be visited today.
Villainy on the High Seas – Hurds Bank
Hurd’s Bank has, since the fall of Gaddafi in 2011, become a centre of fuel smuggling from conflict-ridden Libya and increasingly sophisticated, sanction-busting operations involving Russian oil.
Love Letters Straight From The Crime Writer’s Parents
Childhood memories - the good ones at least - are wonderful things, but how do you bottle them, especially those from the days when a photograph was an exception rather than a rule?
Do You Want to Know a Secret?
Everybody has a secret. Yes you do! A study revealed that the average person keeps thirteen secrets, five of which he or she has never shared with anyone.
The Ancient Detective
Rome has had her fair share of fictional mystery solvers – Lindsey Davis gave us Marcus Didius Falco, there is Gordianus the Finder from Steven Saylor, Marcus Corvinus from David Wishart and Decius Metellus the Younger from John Maddox Roberts – and these are just my top four. But when you look carefully they have one thing in common: none of them are what we would call detectives, or police officials.
Caelius and the Poisoned Finger
On the 4th April 56 BCE, the lawyer, orator and politician Cicero stood up to make his speech in defence of a friend, Caelius Rufus. The speech figures on many an A-level set text and is huge fun to teach, for Cicero is at his best, witty, dramatic and brimming with energy.
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