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.

Die hard Agatha Christie fan John Curran has uncovered two previously unpublished short stories by the prolific crime fiction writer, which will appear in a new book he is writing about her, “Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making”.
Curran taught himself to read what he calls Christie’s “bloody awful handwriting”, to [...]

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 [...]