Writing the murder Jeffry P. Lindsay Orion Books FF Paperback 2008

Writing the murder Jeffry P. Lindsay Orion Books FF Paperback 2008From the macabre tales of Edgar Allan Poe through to the locked room mysteries of the Golden Age, to the many faces of modern crime fiction and the explosion of true crime, writers have always explored the most taboo of human transgressions: the taking of a life. What is it about murder that has fascinated us for so long? And what is it about crimes of this nature that make for such compelling fiction? Gathering an impressive line up of suspects,

John Maynard Keynes's teacher and the font of modern economic theory

he's convinced that a family member is responsible

The cash in his pockets however is still there

unemployed - and on the run

music promoter

On St Scholastica's Day

but will unbalance the world

playing the detective is a grand adventure

It was never solved and Bruno knows that this failure continues to haunt J-J

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing

A near miss for the American entrepreneur and the shocking and bizarre murder of Nigel Hart

the culmination of everything he believes