I can’t make up my mind about the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie, the trailers I’ve seen so far suggest a far degree of slapstick. Still it will be interesting to see which parts of London – places that Holmes is known to have visited – feature in the film.

Murder She Wrote is a classic example of the cozy mystery genre of detective and crime writing.
The cozy is often a puzzle where all the pieces are available for assembly, even if the one which points at the killer needs to be flipped or examined more closely. The precipitating crime either occurs before the story [...]

According to Sydney based peace advocates Vision of Humanity’s recently released Global Peace Index, New Zealand is the most peaceful country in the world, on account of its overall “absence of violence”.
The U.S. is 83rd on the roster, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace that rated the relative tranquility of 144 nations according [...]

Old fashion deductive detective work is largely behind the enduring popularity of Sherlock Holmes writes Melanie McDonagh.
The Sherlock Holmes novels, then, bring us back to a more human and edifying kind of crime, whose perpetrators aren’t identified by scraps of genetic material at the crime scene, mobile phone logs or the simple assumption that it [...]

Rather long – but interesting – account of the life of nineteenth century American horror and crime writer Edgar Allan Poe, who was certainly not someone to take his readers for granted…
You love Poe or you don’t, but, either way, Poe doesn’t love you. A writer more condescending to more adoring readers would be hard [...]

Batman’s nemesis The Penguin may have made a better politician than criminal if this video excerpt from a debate with the Caped Crusader himself, from the 1960s TV show, is anything to go by.
Chief O’Hara steals the show though, as usual…

Russ Stutler has created a floorplan of Sherlock Holmes’ home at 221B Baker street, in London, based on reading all the Sherlock Holmes books.
Amazing.
I can’t work out what’s in the wall cavity behind Dr Watson’s desk though.