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…
PAUL DETTMANN
Writer at Americana Vibes + White Owl and Pen & Sword Books.
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…
Ninety-Two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane
For American listeners, perhaps Thomas McGuane requires no introduction. A successful novelist and screenwriter, he is also a regular…
Global Pandemic: British Lockdown Diaries 2020
I started writing these diaries on LinkedIn as an antidote to all the self-obsessed selling that was happening on that platform.
Private Communications: WhatsApp
I’ve written before about deleting Facebook and WhatsApp. They are two of my most popular articles here on Medium. But today, as WhatsApp…
Roland Gift and Fine Young Cannibals
Roland Gift has been called many things, and one of those things is “the first black punk in Hull”. He was in a Hull ska band called…
The Housemartins Hit The Big Time
It is Christmas 1986 and Caravan of Love reaches №1, only to be knocked off by the inestimable Reet Petite by Jackie Wilson. The Transit…
Mick Ronson and David Bowie
We stay in the 1970s for a look at the career of another Hull musician, Mick Ronson. He’s not widely remembered outside East Yorkshire or…