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STUART TURTON The Devil and the Dark Water. Reviewed by Ann Skea

STUART TURTON The Devil and the Dark Water. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 17 Nov 2020 | Fiction | 0 comments

The award-winning author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle returns with a dark and dangerous mystery set on the high seas. The Devil and the Dark Water reminds me a little of the old circular joke:  It was a dark and stormy night and the Captain said to...
CHRISTOPHER SEQUIERA (Ed.) Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

CHRISTOPHER SEQUIERA (Ed.) Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

by NRB | 22 Mar 2018 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

An accessible dip into the world of fan fiction, these 16 illustrated short stories are not just for lovers of Sherlock Holmes. Seventeen different authors have contributed to this collection, including the overall editor Christopher Sequiera, himself a Sherlock...
Crime Scene: LUCY SUSSEX Blockbuster!: Fergus Hume and The Mystery of the Hansom Cab. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

Crime Scene: LUCY SUSSEX Blockbuster!: Fergus Hume and The Mystery of the Hansom Cab. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

by NRB | 28 Apr 2016 | Crime Scene | 1 comment

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, written in the mid 1880s, was a world-wide publishing phenomenon. The story of its publication deserves a book like Blockbuster!. Lucy Sussex is a renowned crime fiction expert, researcher and editor, originally from New Zealand, now from...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on revisiting Sherlock Holmes

The Godfather: Peter Corris on revisiting Sherlock Holmes

by NRB | 4 Sep 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

I’ve been reading, or rather having read to me via Audible, the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels. The temptation when writing about Holmes is to fall into the manner and cadences of his biographer Dr John Watson. If I were to do this I’d write something like: The...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on Sherlock Holmes

The Godfather: Peter Corris on Sherlock Holmes

by NRB | 25 Jul 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

Recently, one of my daughters, knowing of my enjoyment of the Sherlock Holmes novels and stories, gave me a DVD of episodes in the first of the 2010 BBC TV series Sherlock. She said it was an update. I was sceptical. More of that later. I’d read Conan Doyle in my...

WILLIAM BOYD Solo: A James Bond Novel. Reviewed by Peter Corris

by NRB | 31 Oct 2013 | Fiction | 0 comments

Moneypenny, M, danger, sex and cigarettes; the self-indulgent, worldly tone: William Boyd’s James Bond gets it right. I imagine that writing a Sherlock Holmes or James Bond pastiche is something like ghost writing or co-authoring an ‘autobiography’....
             

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