The Quiet American (1955)
In 1955, Graham Greene published "The Quiet American", part character confession and part political allegory, set amidst the changing of the colonial ...
Lighting the Pipes
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A canonical tour of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and their colourful contexts. More an enthusiast’s journey than an expert’s quest, episodes aim to blend research and literary analysis with banterful conversation and review.
LTP Selects: The Copper Beeches (1892)
Our "Sherlock Selects" summer series concludes here with a real show-stopper! "The Copper Beeches" is one of Conan Doyle's most atmospheric and engagi...
LTP Selects: The Creeping Man (1923)
When old age hands you lemons... it's time to take monkey gland injections from a quack Czech doctor! Or, at least, that's what Professor Presbury mig...
Knots & Crosses (1987)
In this gritty crime thriller, Detective Sergeant John Rebus makes his literary debut. Ian Rankin draws on rich material from the city of Edinburgh an...
LTP Selects: Black Peter (1904)
A grizzly harpoon murder and a protégé inspector lure Sherlock and Watson out of London and into the remote Weald of East Sussex in this atmospheric a...
LTP Selects: The Bruce-Partington Plans (1908)
Our "Sherlock Selects" mini-series continues to buffer the Summer's bigger reads, this time with a conversation on "The Bruce Partington Plans" from M...
A Morbid Taste For Bones (1977)
Published in 1977, "A Morbid Taste For Bones" introduced Brother Cadfael to the world, a Welsh Benedictine monk of the 12th Century with a penchant fo...
LTP Selects: The Cardboard Box (1893)
Second in our series of "Sherlock Selects" for the Summer is "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box". Originally published in January of 1893 (and first ...
LTP Selects: The Abbey Grange
This season, we'll be buffering new episodes with re-introduced and smaller story reviews. For these selections, we reach back into our first season v...
Later (2021) by Stephen King
"Later" marks the third and most recent crime story written by Stephen King for the Hard Case Crime label. Offering readers a predictable mix of the s...