Classics in September 2016 – a recap
September 2016 comes to an end, and it’s time to say goodbye to the month during which we’ve celebrated classic crime fiction. We hope you’ve…
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CIS: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers revisited
Although it wasn’t the first story ever written about spies, The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service by Erskine Childers can be described…
CIS: My classics by Rosie Claverton
The Cardiff-based novelist and screen writer Rosie Claverton is more than happy being a modern crime author. Her books include Code Runner, Binary Witness and Captcha Thief,…
CIS: 10 literary classics that are also crime stories
Here at Crime Fiction Lover we don’t care about genre labels as long as a book is well-written, suspenseful and contains a few dead bodies. Other…
CIS: Ten top crime classics from Bloomsbury Reader
For the entire month of September 2016, we’ve been celebrating the best crime fiction of years gone by. Classics in September is a hit with…
CIS: The Methods of Sergeant Cluff
Written by Gil North — This year The British Library is celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the birth of the writer Gil North. This was…
CIS: Georges Simenon’s Dirty Snow revisited
If you’ve read Georges Simenon’s classic of existential noir Dirty Snow you will probably believe there was mutual influence between Simenon and his contemporary Albert Camus. Dirty…
CIS: The eight best classic crime adventure games for iPad
Books, films, television… there are lots of ways to enjoy crime fiction. One of the most immersive methods of savouring a mystery, however, is with…
CIS: The White Cottage Mystery
Written by Margery Allingham — The best thing about CrimeFictionLover’s Classics in September is that it encourages readers to step out of their comfort zones…
CIS: My classics by Mark Edwards
First, a confession. I will probably be booted out of the Crime Writers’ Association for this, but I have never actaully read anything from the…
CIS: 10 of the best pulp crime books
The pulp fiction phenomenon began early in the 20th century and its heyday was in the 1920s and 30s when hundreds upon hundreds of quickly written…
CIS: 75 years of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
With the world at war, England under bombardment, espionage running rampant, and sinister forces blanketing half the globe, late 1941 cannot have been the right…
CIS: My classics by Christopher Bartley
Christopher Bartley, is the pen name for B Christopher Frueh, an American writer and behavioral scientist. He is a Professor of Psychology at the University of…
CIS: Murder Has a Motive
Written by Francis Duncan — Last December, Vintage began reprinting 1940s classics by Francis Duncan beginning with Murder for Christmas. Murder Has a Motive is one…
CIS: The lasting legacy of The Moonstone
Although its claim to be as the first detective story in the English language is often disputed by Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue (published more than 25 years earlier),…
CIS: Win Bloombury Reader books on our Facebook page
Head to our Facebook page every Thursday this September, and you’ll be able to enter to win a Bloomsbury Reader classic crime novel. The prize…