Book Review: The Inspector Dover Novels (The Strand Magazine proudly presents these book reviews.) DCI Wilfred Dover is lazy, unhygienic, rude, gluttonous, ill-tempered, sticky-fingered, and one of the most entertaining detectives of twentieth-century crime fiction.  His creator, Joyce Porter, wrote ten novels and several short stories featuring Scotland Yard’s most boorish and crude sleuth, along with […]

Book Review: A Woman Condemned: The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio (The Strand Magazine proudly presents this review of A Woman Condemned: The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio.) After reading the title of this book, it may seem as if this historical overview of a 1930’s crime intends to exonerate the titular defendant.  As the story […]

Book Review: One Day You’ll Burn (The Strand Magazine proudly presents this review of One Day You’ll Burn.) One Day You’ll Burn manages to achieve something few novels manage to succeed at doing: create a palpable sense of atmosphere and place. Not only that, but it manages to do so without being heavy-handed or overblown.  Focusing on […]