Monthly Archives: January 2013

Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent

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Presumed Innocent Scott Turow First published in the UK 1987, Bloomsbury This edition: Penguin 1988, 2011 ISBN: 9780141049212 423 pages Score 5/5 I’ve decided on a New Year’s Resolution: I am going to try to answer this question about every book … Continue reading

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Episode one of the BBC Father Brown: The Hammer of God

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I’ve been a Father Brown fan for more than twenty years, but although I was delighted to hear that G. K. Chesterton’s classic sleuth would be coming to BBC1, my initial reaction to news of the show was negative. First … Continue reading

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Father Brown – new BBC series with Mark Williams

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As a long-time fan of the Father Brown stories by G. K. Chesterton, I have been eagerly anticipating the BBC’s adaptation. I’ve set up this page as an index of the show’s appearances on the Web. Episodes The first five … Continue reading

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Books with silly names: December’s classic crime in the blogosphere

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I anticipated two themes for December’s round-up: Christmas crimes and Sherlock Holmes (December 2012 being the 125th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet in Beeton’s Christmas Annual. I didn’t see much of either, and didn’t even manage to get … Continue reading

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