Just a quick note to let you know that I have once again been a guest on Caroline Crampton’s highly entertaining Shedunnit podcast, this time discussing the novel The Sanfield Scandal (1929) by Richard Keverne.
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In GAD We Trust – Episode 36: Building the Perfect Pastiche, via The Return of Moriarty (2025) by Jack Anderson [w’ Jack Anderson]

A bit of pre-Christmas podcasting for you, as I sit down with Jack Anderson, author of The Return of Moriarty (2025) which, honestly now, is probably the very best Sherlock Holmes universe pastiche I’ve ever read.
Continue reading#1351: And in That Way of Caution I Must Tell You – On Hiding Clues in Plain Sight
I recently lamented that I don’t really do much in the way of think-pieces on The Invisible Event any more, and some of you in the comments were like ‘Yeah, so do them again, then, idiot’. So here goes.
Continue readingIn GAD We Trust – Episode 35: The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles and the Golden Age (2025) by John Curran [w’ John Curran]
In GAD We Trust – Episode 34: Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife (2025) and The (Expanded) Golden Age of Murder (2025) by Martin Edwards [w’ Martin Edwards]

I promised you more podcast, and wouldn’t have blamed you for not believing me; but more podcast there is today for your listening pleasure.
Continue reading#1328: The Tenniversary – Ten Books That (Unwittingly) Shaped This Blog
On 18th August 2025, The Invisible Event will have been running for ten years. And while I’m not a big one for introspection — I read books, I write about those books, some people read what I’ve written, rinse, repeat — a decade feels like a notable achievement and so some introspection is going to be had, for today at least.
Continue reading#1259: The Invisible Event x Tipping My Fedora – The Novels of Jim Thompson
While I slowly, slowly work my way towards another episode of my own podcast, here’s news that I was invited onto someone else’s, the results of which are now available for you to listen to.
Continue readingIn GAD We Trust – Episode 33: Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness (2024) by Mark Aldridge [w’ Mark Aldridge]
Another surprise episode of my increasingly-irregular podcast In GAD We Trust, this time featuring Mark Aldridge in discussion about his new book, Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness (2024).
Continue readingIn GAD We Trust – Episode 32: The Revival of James Ronald [w’ Chris Verner]
Five and a half years ago I tracked down and read an obscure novelette by long-forgotten British pulp writer James Ronald, which set me on the trail of his far-from-readily-available other works. This week, Moonstone Press published the first two in a series of reprints that will see Ronald’s entire criminous catalogue made available, and series editor Chris Verner is here to tell us all about it.
Continue readingIn GAD We Trust – Episode 31: Bodies from the Library 6 (2023) ed. Tony Medawar [w’ Tony Medawar]

Another year, another Bodies from the Library collection — incredibly, the sixth — and another opportunity to sit down with Tony Medawar and talk about the wonderful work he’s doing on all our behalfs.
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