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‘My favourite type of mystery, suspenseful, and where everyone is not what they appear . . . Christine is great at creating atmosphere . . . she evokes the magic of the stage, and her characters [have] a past to be uncovered before the mystery is solved.’ [Stage Fright]

- Lizzie Hayes, MYSTERY WOMEN

Cassandra returns

Posted on Feb 24, 2022 in 'Some Other Dracula', Cassandra James novels, CWA anthology, Dracula, Flame Tree Press, Flame Tree Publishing, Martin Edwards | 6 Comments

This week sees the publication of the new CWA short story anthology, Music of the Night. It is edited by Martin Edwards and contains twenty-five stories, some by doyens of the crime-writing world, such as Peter Lovesey, Andrew Taylor, Kate Ellis, including four Diamond Dagger winners, and others by writers who haven’t had a story […]

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The Death of the Short Story?

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, CWA anthology, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, John O'London's Weekly, Music of the Night, The Evening Standard, The People's Friend, The Strand | 6 Comments

There are so few outlets for short stories these days. It didn’t used to be the case. There was a Golden Age of the short story from the 1880s to perhaps the 1950s when there were lots of magazines like The Strand and John O’London’s Weekly that published them. The Strand, most famous for the […]

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