The Mike Robbins blog

Crime writing is fun, but don’t give up the day job...  A look at t wo vintage detective stories by men who didn’t When I was a child my p...

A change in my life has made me aware of time passing, of one’s former world slipping away, and of loss. A century ago, the First World War ...

  Enjoy the sea view. Don’t fall in At the end of 2012 I started this blog. I don’t know quite what I planned to do with it at the time. T...

A trip back into the Golden Age of crime Some months ago, tired and worried after months of lockdown (and in the middle of a health scare o...