February 17, 2022 Out of the Dark by David Gaffney Review by Basil Ransome-Davies The title echoes that of Out of the Past, a canonical film noir that ends uncompromisingly in a double catastrophe…
December 4, 2018 Only To Sleep by Lawrence Osborne Review by Basil Ransome-Davies A short walk from my ergonomic study chair is my Chandler bookshelf. It includes some Philip Marlowe fiction not by…
August 9, 2016 For All the Gold in the World by Massimo Carlotto Translated by Antony Shugaar Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is ‘an Alligator mystery’, latest in a series featuring an independent and unlicensed private investigator, Marco…
January 26, 2016 Cut Me In by Ed McBain Reviewed by Annabel Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter, although that wasn’t his original name either) was a prolific author, writing over eighty novels. These…
April 28, 2015 The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black Reviewed by Harriet I thought there wasn’t much more damage that could be done to me that hadn’t already been done. You get hardened…
July 31, 2014 The Day of the Dead by Maurizio de Giovanni Translated by Antony Shugaar Reviewed by Falaise On a miserable morning in 1930, a small, undernourished child is found dead at the foot of the…
July 22, 2014 The Cemetery of Swallows by Mallock Translated by Stephen Rendall Reviewed by Falaise The Cemetery of Swallows is a recent addition to Europa Editions’ excellent World Noir imprint, which, as you…
