John George Haslette Vahey (1881 – 1938) was born in Belfast and was educated at Ulster, Foyle College, and Hanover. He first worked as an architect and then as an accountant and then became a full-time writer. His first of 52 novels was published in 1916 and his last...
Run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookstore and grab a copy of the latest Joe DeMarco adventure, which is out today. Untouchable by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly Press, February 2025) is the 18th title in a consistently fine political thriller series that began 20...
Crippen & Landru Publishers (C&L) produces single-author short story collections, both current crime fiction authors and uncollected stories by mystery and detective writers of the past. It’s the latter that I find most valuable, since so many authors...
Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) has long been one of my all-time favorite authors. Well known for creating the Regency romance, she also produced mysteries and historical fiction. She considered a trilogy about the House of Lancaster her master work but she was unable to...
Colin Watson (1920–1983) was an English journalist and author of a successful detective series set in the prosperous market and port town of Flaxborough in East Anglia. Flaxborough is a fictionalized version of the town of Boston in Lincolnshire where Watson was a...
