CRIME AND CRIME WRITING

Trickery or deception, often in a political context This expression alludes to the performances of stage conjurers who use actual smoke and ...

Over the centuries conjurors have devised many ways to enthrall their audiences, and, despite the sophistication of modern audiences, they a...

Misdirection is a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from a...

Misdirection is a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from a...

'Locked-Room' Mysteries and Other Impossible Crimes Introduction A popular sub-genre in mystery fiction, especially during the Golde...

The Hollow Man is a famous locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr ( 1906 - 1977 ), published in 1935 . It was...

The perfect murder is a murder which benefits the murderer, but also has no negative consequences for him or her; usually, this simply mean...

the Eve Club, which for more than three decades created a stylish combination of sexual and political intrigue that today's nightclubs c...

In a book originally put together by Hunter Davies in the late sixties called The London Spy - A Discrete Guide To The City’s Pleasures , th...

In 1953 the Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida opened the Moka coffee bar at 29 Frith Street in Soho which provided London with its first Gag...

To some Paul Raymond was at the vanguard of the newly liberated post-war Britain but to others he was just a man who became filthy rich pedd...

That there was corruption in Soho in the late sixties and early seventies was an open secret amongst journalists, lawyers and the police th...

What kind of man is this Don Juan Tenorio?", asks Leo Weinstein in his monograph on the Don Juan legend [1] , "Why does he bend al...

There are two basic types of aggression: overt-aggression and covert-aggression. When you're determined to have something and you're...

Some are also able to feign concern about the lower classes and profess that they are on the side of the underdog, the poor, and so forth....

There are usually no symptoms to suggest a psychoneurosis in the clinical sense. In fact, the psychopath is nearly always free from minor re...

More often than not, the typical psychopath will seem particularly agreeable and make a distinctly positive impression when he is first enco...

I don’t think I feel things the same way you do.” The concept of the psychopath is only the latest and most refined in a long string of atte...