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The Storyteller
How the detective story came of age
This article was originally published in October 2020. With this novel, Raymond Chandler transformed the genre from the simple whodunnit to the philosophical musings of a...
The Storyteller
The Enduring Power of the Crime Thriller
You would have thought that more than 130 years after Conan Doyle’s gentleman sleuth Sherlock Holmes first appeared in the Strand Magazine and was followed by Dashiell Hammett’s...
The Storyteller
LIVERPOOL BAY: EPISODE 8
The Final Episode of our Crime Thriller set in the world of property Following the deaths of property tycoon Charles Rudd and his CEO Nick O’Keeffe in a sailing accident in...
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LIVERPOOL BAY: EPISODE 7
Insurance investigator William Rohm has discovered that before they were drowned in a sailing accident in Liverpool Bay, multi-millionaire Charles Rudd and his CEO Nick O’Keeffe...
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LIVERPOOL BAY: EPISODE 6
Following the deaths of property tycoon Charles Rudd and his CEO Nick O’Keeffe in a sailing accident in Liverpool Bay, insurance investigator William Rohm has travelled north to...