A great account of a major scandal: An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
Robert Harris’s fictional account of the Captain Dreyfus Affair sticks closely to actual events and greatly entertains. … Read the full post »
Sherlock Holmes
Read my posts featuring the fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Although not the first fictional detective, he is the most famous of them.
Pizza Express: Byward Street – bring a towel and a shawl
Byward Street, near the Tower of London, has a very brief cameo role in the Sherlock Holmes homage, The Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #13 is out: silent dogs, battling ministers and more
Liberal Democrat Newswire #13 carries news of an odd silence from Labour along with the latest on Lib Dem – Tory clashes within the coalition government. … Read the full post »
What won’t be in Ed Miliband’s speech
The dog that did not bark in the nighttime was a key clue in the Sherlock Holmes story Silver Blaze. … Read the full post »
Grandville: a grand graphic novel
A world where France won the Napoleonic wars, Victorian technology still dominates and the Earth is inhabited by anthropomorphised animals. … Read the full post »
Son of Holmes: an inferior detective novel
Should one author pick up the settings or characters from another? Is that an homage to their brilliance and a welcome extension of the creations, or is it an excuse for second-rate knock-offs? … Read the full post »
The Water Room: a Bryant & May mystery by Christopher Fowler
Christopher Fowler’s The Water Room is another outing for his Peculiar Crimes Unit and its detectives Arthur Bryant and John May. … Read the full post »
The Peculiar Crimes Unit: Bryant and May get their own website
Though I’ve come to Christopher Fowler’s Bryant and May crime series rather late… … Read the full post »
Celebrity – a play by Christopher Fowler and an excellent night out
Earlier this week I went to see Celebrity, a play by Christopher Fowler – he of the Bryant & May mysteries. … Read the full post »
Sherlock Holmes’s successor: Brigadier Gerard
Whimsical adventures featuring one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s post-Sherlock Holmes creations, the Napoleonic French cavalry officer Brigadier Etienne Gerard. … Read the full post »