Flawed, but oh so readable!The novel describes an improbable romp through north-east Siberia, by way of rarefied Oxford University, remote British Columbia, and Tokyo. Our hero is super-linguist and multiculturalist Johnny Porter (aka Raven aka Jean-Baptiste Porteur), a native of the Canadian Git...
This is my third time reading The Chelsea Murders, and this time I actually remembered which of them was the killer about halfway through. I don't think there's a murder mystery out there that I've ever enjoyed quite as much, certainly not of the classic English variety which this both is and sen...
53 years ago in 1960 Lionel Davidson was 38 years old when he wrote his debut novel, Night of Wenceslas winning the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award. The politics of the world have changed over the past 53 years but Davidson’s novel stands the test of time and rarely sounds outdated. T...
