Christopher St. John Sprigg 's The Perfect Alibi (1934) is the third novel in the regrettably short-lived series about the Mercury ...

Back in 2016, I compiled a brief overview, under the title " A Selection of Lost Detective Stories ," listing a number of examp...

My last three reads can be described as a varied lot, coming from two different countries and periods, but they had one thing common: a s...

Death of a Queen (1935) was Christopher St. John Sprigg 's sixth detective novel and the last one to be published before his life wa...

Earlier this month, I reviewed The Six Queer Things (1936) by Christopher St. John Sprigg and pointed to the upcoming releases of Crime ...

Christopher St. John Sprigg was a British writer who left school at the age of fifteen to work as a cub reporter on a now defunct newspa...