Val Culley

Poet’s promising debut detective novel The Vintage edition of A Question of Proof Nicholas Blake’s first Nigel Strangeways Mystery, A Ques...

Former Poet Laureate's other identity Cecil Day-Lewis adopted Nicholas Blake as a pseudonym Crime writer Nicholas Blake wrote 20 highly ...

Crime writer challenged the conventions of the genre in first novel The Vintage Books edition of Speedy Death Prolific detective fiction wri...

The story of a complex police investigation full of surprises The story starts with a consignment of French wines unloaded at the docks in L...

Writer employed the intricacies of the railway timetable for his alibis Freeman Wills Croft worked in railways for 33 years before becoming ...

Edgar Allan Poe invented the fictional detective in April 1841 The first detective story by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, The Murde...

A look back at the career of E C Bentley who wrote the detective novel that heralded the Golden Age E C Bentley intended his novel to be a s...