David Baldacci: My Library Memories
The best-selling author David Baldacci on the magical books of his childhood, Encyclopedia Brown, The Three Investigators, and the vital importance of libraries
Martin Edwards: “My Top Ten Favorite Hercule Poirot Mysteries”
Martin Edwards, The consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics series and current President of the Detection Club weighs in on the best of Poirot!
THE GREAT WRONG PLACE: RAYMOND CHANDLER’S LOS ANGELES AT 70
Mike Valerio on ‘the idea of the city as a living, breathing character–capturing the sights, the smells, the bleak glare of the sunlight, the deceptive smoothness of the surface beneath which nothing is as it seems.’
The Paignton Poisoner: a poem by Mark Temple
Disappeared
by John Mueter Like many residents of Stockholm, the Nesser family spent much of the summer at their cabin on a small island. The Baltic archipelago, comprised of thousands of islands, is easily accessible from the city, only a short boat-ride away. The Nessers had one of the smaller islands all to themselves where they […]
A Ghost in Edinburgh
by Frances Park For a reluctant traveler, I felt at home in Edinburgh. And by the time the hired car pulled up to the G&V Hotel, I knew the lay of the land. Me, who feels lost when I step off an elevator. Right? Left? Maybe I’d been here before, in a dream, or was […]
Agatha, My Dear: A Poem by Jonathan Everitt
THE SOURCE OF HER TEARS: A Poem by Liana Sakelliou
Train of Trains: A Poem by Stephen Ground
The Bored Game Cupboard: A Poem by Tricia Knoll
