World of the Written Word

  Can you imagine being alone with three small children in the bustling port of New Bedford in the very early 1860s, and hear the news that ...

  The mystery was first unveiled in the United States by the Daily Evening Traveller , of Boston, December 31, 1860, which reported the mass...

  The year is 1634. The greatest detective in the world, Sammy Pipps, is being hauled in chains and manacles from Batavia (modern Jakarta, i...

  Every American recovering from a Thanksgiving Dinner will relate to this ... Anyone could've told you with their eyes shut what food t...

  Dame Stella Rimington was the Director General of MI5, appointed in 1992, the first woman to hold that post. After retiring in 1996, she w...

  I first came across the literary works of Abby Geni when her agent (who is also my agent) gave me a copy of The Lightkeepers  over a delig...

  It seems years since I have picked up a book that I could not put down.  Yesterday was a first for quite a while - and well timed, too, as...

  Tommy loved that flag ... Never once had he looked at it as a fantasy in which to lose himself. It was a responsibility, not a birthright,...

  I am a great fan of Garry Disher and Chris Hammer, so when a librarian recommended Patricia Wolf, I gave this, her first novel, a go. And ...

  I had thought that with Lucy Foley's " The Paris Apartment " I had read the best mystery ever.  But no, I was wrong.  This o...