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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy revisited

19 October, 2023

While Cormac McCarthy is often hailed as the author who revived and reinvented the Western, some of his stories fit equally well within the genre we love most – crime fiction. None more so, perhaps, than No Country for Old Men, a book that sits…

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The Pale Horse rides again, courtesy of The Folio Society

By crimefictionlover

14 March, 2023

The Pale Horse is one of Agatha Christie’s darkest and most gothic mysteries, and is arguably the best among many great novels by this author. Today, the book is being republished in a special format by The Folio Society, complete with illustrated plates by the…

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CIS: Rogue Male revisited

By Andre

7 September, 2014

Geoffrey Household’s most famous novel is a period piece that exerts such a powerful grip on the contemporary reader it may well be the best crime thriller to be published in 2014. Rogue Male was reissued this summer to mark the book’s 75th anniversary. Twelve…

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CIS: The Day of the Jackal revisited

By DavidPrestidge

1 September, 2014

When Frederick Forsyth wrote The Day of the Jackal, it was a shot in the dark. The writer had produced a factual book about the war in Biafra, which took place in the late 1960s, but it hadn’t done too well. His stab at a…

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First look: The Day of the Jackal deluxe

By crimefictionlover

30 May, 2014

If you love high quality printing, the feel of a hefty hardback in your hand, the smell of ink, paper and binding glue, as well as artful illustrations with your crime fiction, then this is the book for you. The Folio Society, which specialises in…

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CIS: The Agatha Christie birthday quiz!

By DavidPrestidge

15 September, 2013

Win a fantastic prize! On 15 September 1890, arguably Britain’s favourite crime fiction writer of all time was born in Torquay, Devon. So, today we’re celebrating the birthday of Agatha Christie. And with it we’ve got a quiz to win a superb illustrated edition of…

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Mystery package from The Folio Society

By crimefictionlover

25 May, 2013

“Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth.” Thus begins The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, widely acclaimed to be one of the greatest crime fiction novels ever written. The words leap from…

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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy revisited

The Pale Horse rides again, courtesy of The Folio Society

CIS: Rogue Male revisited

CIS: The Day of the Jackal revisited

First look: The Day of the Jackal deluxe

CIS: The Agatha Christie birthday quiz!

Mystery package from The Folio Society

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