England

  • Crime and the City: Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight

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    Portsmouth – known to the locals as “Pompey” – is, and has been for centuries, England’s largest Royal Navy base, 75 miles south of London in the country of Hampshire. Home to two-thirds of the UK’s surface naval fleet and with a reputation you might expect of a town filled to the gills with sailors….

  • Following Agatha Christie’s Footsteps in Torquay

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    I am sitting on the sweeping terrace of the Imperial hotel in Torquay, England, looking out over the breathtakingly blue water of the bay, soaking up crime fiction history.  This is Christie country, the place where Agatha Christie was born, and the venue for the International Agatha Christie festival every September. The Imperial is where…


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