Murder on the Short List

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‘The Field’ was first published in Green for Danger (The Do-Not Press, 2003); ‘Bullets’ in The Mammoth Book of Roaring twenties Whodunnits (Robinson 2004); ‘Razor Bill’ in Sherlock, 2004; ‘Needle Match’ in Murder is My Recquet (Mysterious Press, 2005); ‘A Blow on the Head’ in I.D.Crimes of Identity (Comma Press, 2006); ‘The Munich Posture’ in The Rigby File (Hodder & Stoughton, 1989); ‘The Best Suit’ in this edition; ‘The Man Who Jumped for England’ In Mysterious Pleasures (Little, Brown, 2003); ‘Second Strings’ in The Strand Magazine, 2004; ‘Bertie and the Christmas Tree’ in The Strand Magazine, 2007; ‘Say That Again’ in The Ideas Experiment (Paw Paw Press, 2006); ‘Popping Round to the Post’ in The Verdict of Us All (Allison & Busby, 2006); ‘Window of Opportunity’ in Sunday Express, 2003; ‘The Case of the Dead Wait’ in Daily Mail, 2004.

Writers get used to being asked where they get their ideas from. If you’re a crime writer, as I am, the question is loaded. Do I have personal experience of disposing of bodies and evading the police? And when I give my truthful answer, that my ideas come from numerous sources, I sense the questioner thinking that’s a cop-out, a typical piece of evasion from someone up to his ears in crime.

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