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Why do hidden masterminds fascinate us? From Professor Moriarty to QAnon, discover how crime fiction shaped our fascination with secret conspiracies.

I’m delighted to have been invited to give a solo talk at the ‘Alibis in the Archive 2026’ event to be held in collaboration with the Crime Writers’ Association at the prestigious Gladstone’s Library on 5th June – 7th June.This stunning location is home to the British Crime Writing Archive, made up of materials from the Crime Writers’ Association and The Detection Club. That champion of the genre, Martin Edwards, has worked closely with the Gladstone’s Library team to make th

As well as consuming a wealth of films, social history books, and crime exposés, I drew great inspiration for my Golden Age crime series, Piccadilly Noir , from a collection of written works with a distinctly local provenance. After all, unlike the American milieu of Chandler’s and Hammett’s detectives, my protagonist George Harley, who first appears in Midnight Streets , inhabits a peculiarly British world – a world of grubby bedsits, all-night cafés, egg and chips, and Gol

Robert Aickman In the late 1980s I bought a copy of Robert Aickman’s novella The Model , purely based on its intriguing cover: a...

On May 31, 1959 – four years after Senator McCarthy’s televised anti-communist hearings – the fresh-faced heartthrob Bobby Darin debuted...

I was lucky enough to be invited as a guest on the fab podcast ‘My Favourite Beatles Song’ with Tim Tucker. We discuss the emotional...

Join us on Tuesday April 1st 7pm at the Greenwich branch of Waterstones, where we will be celebrating the publication of MIDNIGHT...

I have a vivid memory from childhood of standing in the small porch of my family home. It is a hot summer’s day and the sunlight blazing...

Author Panel - The Ivy Club Monday, 4th November 2024 6:30pm - 8:30pm What does it take to get your book published? As well as ability,...

In 1933, just after the scheduled release of the film Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse , the director Fritz Lang was visited at his office in...

Gerald Kersh? I hear you say. Who’s that? And part of me doesn’t want to tell you. Part of me wants to keep him a treasured secret to be...