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Tribute to Peter Lovesey
Peter Lovesey was one of a select band of crime writers who score highly with both crime fans and fellow peers. One of his admirers was the late Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher who was intrigued by the elegant television ...
Crime Writers as hoarders of Knowledge
When I joined the Crime Writers’ Association and attended social functions I perceived that many writers led interesting lives as people other than writers. Aside from the obvious fact that crime writers convey in there books the misdeeds of ...
Robert Richardson – tribute to the writer and exponent of crime
It was during the mid eighties – the period when the newspaper headlines were full of stories of Britain on strike – that broadsheet journalist Robert Richardson chanced upon writing his first detective novel. It was sheer escapism for ...
The Collectibility of Leather Rebinds or collecting rare books
The Collectibilty of Leather Rebinds In Centuries past libraries in great houses were lined with leather bound volumes. They provided accessibility to knowledge, exuded learning and gave satisfaction to the owner – who had given time and effort in assembling ...
McDermid’s ‘Distant Echo’ dramatised
Val McDermid's first DC Karen Pirie novel is to be dramatised in a new ITV drama series. Outlander star Lauren Lyle will play the lead character - the young fearless Scottish detective - to be made by the makers ...
Reginald Hill (1936 – 2012) Prolific literary crime writer
Reginald Hill, prolific British author best known for his 24 idiosyncratic, but highly elegant crime novels featuring the Yorkshire police detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe, is perhaps one of the most admired and influential crime writers of the ...
George Blake: Epitaph for a Spy
George Blake (1922 – 2020) was one of the most enigmatic of the unmasked spies. Could he have been an unlikely perfect spy with a conscience; a man of principle or a blatant schemer? Accounts of Blake’s deeds vary ...
R Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon – spy thriller – rebinding
Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon (1999); winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. 1/12 signed limited of twelve copies rebound in leather with handmade marble sides; signed on limitation page with a new introduction approved by the author. Genre: ...
Spy Fiction Collectables
The first book in the Scorpion Press series of Signed Leather bound editions was a spy thriller - The Year of the Scorpion by Michael Hartland. Nine books with a war-time or Cold War espionage plot have appeared in ...
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