Truth or Dare
What is the truth in biography?
PAUL DETTMANN
Writer at Crime Guy + White Owl and Pen & Sword Books. Writer at Tennessee Vibes. UK: Bucks + Anlaby.
Paddy and Larry
The friendship between Patrick Leigh Fermor and Lawrence Durrell
Beginning the Journey
Just as I closed the laptop lid on another writing project, two books arrived from the London Library. Lawrence Durrell: A Biography, the…
Passing Time In The Loo
I write on a slow Sunday about our downstairs lavatorial. This is on its last legs and we are planning to turn it into a fully equipped…
Book: A Burglar’s Guide to the City
Whatever the title of this book makes you think of, you’re likely to be wrong. This book is incredible and original.
WW2 Crete: Abducting a General
There is something that always bothered me about Patrick Leigh Fermor’s account of Crete and also of his own ‘great trudge’ across Europe…
Crime Classics: The Moors and The Wests
I’ve been a little quiet preparing a new series for you. After the recent demise of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, a man who…
Robert B. Parker
Spenser: A Pulp Hero?
Pen Name Hell
Why do people use pen names? More specifically: why do crime writers have so many each? I know the answer, and it’s complicated.
What Is Pulp Crime?
I can tell you what my definition of pulp crime is. It might work for you. You might object to bits of my definition, and I might object…
Welcome
I’m trying something new this year. Writing a novel in 8 weeks. True, it’s a short novel, only two hundred pages. That’s around 60,000…
Life After The Beautiful South
It’s hard being a musician in a band. It might be harder to go solo, but not in all ways. The problem with bands is that the good ones…