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Holmes Entangled

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Written by Gordon McAlpine – Holmes Entangled is a great title for this complex metafictional novel. Nominally a private detective mystery with a host of familiar characters, it is about as far removed from the original Conan Doyle canon as it’s possible for a Sherlock…
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Nights get colder, crime gets cosier

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On the Radar — Halloween is done and dusted and anyone involved in selling just about anything is now thinking Christmas. Including crime publishers. We start with a couple of harder edged offerings, but from then on it’s cosy all the way. The Promise by Robert Crais This…
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Hammett Unwritten

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Written by Owen Fitzstephen — Samuel Dashiell Hammett was the author of five novels and many short stories and is one of the most famous authors of hardboiled detective fiction. Born in 1894, Hammett left school when he was only 13 and eventually went to…
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Interview: Owen Fitzstephen

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Owen Fitzstephen is the pen name of Gordon McAlpine. He’s dabbled in both ficiton and non-fiction in the past, with a book about baseball and novels touching on different genres. However his upcoming release Hammet Unwritten might really make his name here in crime fiction….
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