Rounding out the collection are a few pieces on lighter topics such as spies and how to spot them, and novelists in Hollywood.

And this time, it’s personal. “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine “A peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery.” —Kirkus ...

There are strong elements of social and political satire in this projection of early 1930's anxieties into the near-future: Disaster looms for civilization, as the Communist Party, The British Union of Fascists, a decorated war-hero, ...

At a stately manor home, open for public tours, a young boy lifts the helmet on a suit of armor and finds a human face staring back at him!

The trouble in the Michigan mining town of Thor begins when one married woman covets another married woman’s husband and progresses toward disaster when that husband covets a young girl, and when the whole town of Thor is involved in its ...

Matthew James Matthew dies of natural causes whilst staying at the upmarket Drover¿s Arms in the Cotswolds.