The Naming of the Dead
The sixteenth novel about the hard-boiled Edinburgh detective sees him rubbing shoulders with the great and the good at the G-8 conference in what is Rankin's best yet.
Sep 21, 2007
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Colin Harvey
Sherlock Holmes and Gothic
The Hound of the Baskevilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle, shows the great scientific detective Sherlock Holmes in a novel with distinctly Gothic tendencies.
Aug 28, 2007
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Jem Bloomfield
Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night
Gaudy Night is a thriller, a novel of ideas and a romance, as Harriet Vane and Peter Wimsey investigate crimes in a women's college in 1930s Oxford.
Aug 27, 2007
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Jem Bloomfield
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
An early and often overlooked little gem from the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, for once not featuring either Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple, but two young adventurers.
Jun 11, 2007
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Colin Harvey
Inspector Rebus in Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek is an early crime book from a modern master of the police detective story, showing the world is full of mean streets and men to walk them.
Apr 26, 2007
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Philip Northeast
