TRASHY TUESDAY: A SELECTION OF ‘THE SAINT’ COVERS
The Saint Steps In by Leslie Charteris (Pan, 1959) ‘The Saint’ novels by Leslie Charteris were a mainstay of the British crime fiction scene from Simon...
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THIS WEEK’S CANBERRA WEEKLY COLUMN: 21 MAY 2020
Canberra Weekly 21 May 2020 This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three books with a virus theme. Lawrence Wright’s The End Of October (Bantam) is the...
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LOCKDOWN by Peter May (Riverrun)
Lockdown by Peter May (Riverrun, April 2020) Peter May’s Lockdown, like Richard Hugo’s The Hitler Diaries from several years ago, is one of those rare cases...
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THIS WEEK’S CANBERRA WEEKLY COLUMN: 7 MAY 2020
Canberra Weekly 7 May 2020 This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three tales of suspense and betrayal by British authors. Two of them were by debut authors who...
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CRIMINALLY GOOD ISOLATION READS: SOME RECENT READING DURING LOCKDOWN
Find Them Dead by Peter James (Macmillan, May 2020) One of the few advantages of being in lockdown, is that the number of books I am reading has dramatically increased....
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TRASHY TUESDAY: DEVIL’S HIGHWAY by Hank Janson (Alexander Moring, 1956)
Devil’s Highway by Hank Janson (Alexander Moring, 1956) Hank Janson was the pseudonym adopted by prolific author Stephen D Frances when he created the Janson...
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