Part of the joy of browsing through bookshops is the chance discovery of a forgotten classic.

Dorothy L Sayers was one of the most popular writers in the Golden Age of Murder Mystery in the Twenties and Thirties.

I have something of a soft spot for the Inspector Morse series since it is set in the city where I studied for my degree.

The BBC/Masterpiece Films co-production of 'The Lady Vanishes' is a remake of the 1938 film version, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer (Hodder and Stoughton, 1941) Conflict might have been raging across Europe and beyond when this book was...

Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie (Collins Crime Club, 1934) What do you do when there have been so many adaptations and...

'Mysteries on Monday' begins on Monday 22 March with my review of possibly the greatest murder mystery ever: Murder on the Orient Express.