CRAIG BROWN: Why doesn't this collection of whodunnits tell us anything about the authors?
How many real murders take place at the seaside? For the past 25 years I have been living in a seaside town in Suffolk.
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How many real murders take place at the seaside? For the past 25 years I have been living in a seaside town in Suffolk.
Last modified on Wed 23 Dec 2020 06.59 EST There is a yearly argument – online if nowhere else – as to whether Die Hard, the Bruce-Willis-versus-European-baddies action flick from 1988, is a Christmas movie. It’s set during a holiday party, after all. But every year, people argue that it can’t be a Christmas film, for no other reason I think than the fact that it spills more blood than eggnog. And yet I’d say that Christmas and crime are not such strange bedfellows. For one thing, Christmas is that time of year during which families are thrown together in close proximity, often in o...