Carol Westron: Writing Blog

Mavis Doriel Hay is rather a mystery herself. The chief question being why did she write three detective stories in three years and then ...

A.A. Milne S.S. Van Dine Ronald Knox Agatha Christie Dorothy L. Sayers This article is written from research done for th...

When people talk about Narrative modes and Narrative Point of view it all sounds very complicated. Often it's instinctiv...

In the early 1970s I was studying at Bristol University and my degree was in theology. I enjoyed reading Christie and Sayers and the other...

  Writing historical crime fiction has many challenges, as I know from writing Victorian Murder Mysteries. The challenges of writing ...

'From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1.) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any ...

Fort Nelson is a Victorian Fort, situated on the top of Portsdown Hill, overlooking Portsmouth, a town with a great naval history. I...