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Scorpion Press Blog Posts
- April 22, 2025
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 adaptation […]
- December 14, 2021
Robert Richardson, newspaper man turned award winning and much liked crime writer.
- June 5, 2021
An expanded area of book collecting by Scorpion Press has been leather rebindings of key books.
- May 16, 2021
Val McDermid’s first DC Karen Pirie novel is to be dramatised in a new British ITV drama series. Outlander star Lauren Lyle will play the lead character – the young fearless Scottish detective – to be made by the makers […]
- March 24, 2021
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 last […]
- January 27, 2021
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 a […]
- August 2, 2020
Gold Dagger winner A Small Death in Lisbon brought crime writer Robert Wilson to the fore. His stylish thrillers are reminiscent of Ambler and Greene.
- April 24, 2020
Spy Thrillers as handsome signed collectables. Top names in spycraft – Deighton, Faulks, Higgins etc.
- September 20, 2019
John Fowles’s classic novel, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, first edition rebound in leather to mark the 50th anniversary of publication.
- May 11, 2019
George Macdonald Fraser created one of the great English fictional characters with Flashy or Harry Flashman. This is the original first edition issued by Barrie & Jenkins entitled Flashman’s First Omnibus (1979). Forty years on Scorpion Press is producing a […]
- May 9, 2019
Colin Dexter, The Riddle of The Third Mile, 1st edition Macmillan 1983. Rebound with five raised bands with maroon leather with an Author Profile approved by the Dexter family. Twelve deluxe lettered copies only. This project was started in 2017 […]
- August 27, 2018
Peter Lovesey, The False Inspector Dew 1st London ed., 1982 A sumptuous leather rebinding with five raised bands with marble sides, additional page approved and signed by the author. 1/12 deluxe issued by the Scorpion Press. A classic detective story, […]
- May 23, 2018
Tom Wolfe, author The Right Stuff and Bonfires tells his readers much about modern America. He even forecasts Donald Trump.
- February 2, 2018
One of the great mystery writers of recent times, Sue Grafton has passed away aged 77. Grafton came to prominence in the 80s when she began her alphabetical series of Kinsey Millone private eye novels.
- October 31, 2017
Ann Cleeves Diamond Dagger winner for 2017 – her career reviewed wth reasons for her success.