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This 1939 book is sometimes rated as the best of Eric Ambler’s novels, which can be taken either as a big plus ...

Considerations arise when reading a 1928 Japanese crime novel. On the plus side, we stand to learn something of a unique culture ...

Here is a reissue for the second of the 18 books by American author Ross Macdonald featuring private eye Lew Archer, and ...

They would certainly look impressive as a set of ten on bookshelves, all with the iconic green hue that is the centrepiece ...

Ten crime and espionage novels by British, American, Belgian and Japanese authors published between 1928 and 1978 are in a new series ...

Georges Simenon could be a subtle writer. Take the very first words of this novel – “He was walking. For at least ...

The world is divided neatly into collectors and others, the latter being people who scratch their heads trying to understand why there ...

Writers Ian Fleming, an Englishman, 1908-1964, and Georges Simenon, a Belgian, 1903-1989, created two of the greatest characters in 20th-century fiction – ...

Georges Simenon having died in 1989, the uncovering now of any “new investigations” would be exciting news indeed for fans of our ...

I wouldn’t call it an obsession, as such, but certainly a deep fascination. It began decades ago with the many books and ...