Lighting the Pipes

According to Ogden Nash, "Philo Vance needs a kick in the pants", and Dashiel Hammett described the character's posturing as being, "like a teenager who had been studying the forei...

Another year, another 007 continuation novel for John Gardner! In 1984 it was "Role of Honour", his fourth effort, which pits a rich but disenchanted James Bond up against a SPECTR...

Get Your Magic Mind Offer! 👉 (https://magicmind.com/LTPMAR)Our first foray into the work of Georges Simenon sees us tackle one of the Belgian writer's most celebrated books. When ...

Fresh on the heels of last week's novel review, we're proud to present our conversation about Clint Eastwood's film adaptation of Trevanian's "The Eiger Sanction" from 1975. Record...

Get Your Magic Mind Offer 👉 https://magicmind.com/LTP201972's "The Eiger Sanction" was affectionately referred to as a light spoof of the spy genre by its author, Trevanian. In so...

Get Your Magic Mind Offer 👉 https://magicmind.com/LTP20LTP Noir is back and this time it's Paramount's 1942 spy thriller, "This Gun For Hire", that's brought in for questioning! F...

Get Your Magic Mind Offer 👇(https://magicmind.com/LTP20)Made rich through universal themes of duality, friendship and unchecked ambition, Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novella ...

Throughout the first World War, acclaimed novelist W. Somerset Maugham worked for British Intelligence in Switzerland. Under cover as a writer, Maugham used his knowledge of travel...

Happy New Year! Our survey of John Gardner's continuation novels carries on with a chat over his third effort. If, like many, you buy into the belief that a Bond's third outing is ...

Our final episode of 2024 looks back on an entertaining year of reading for the show. We also present our rankings for each text covered and share in the challenge of our first hol...

It's Christmas at Gorston Hall and the Lee family is preparing to welcome family home for the holidays at the behest of grizzled, mischievous patriarch, Simeon. But when the guest...

Despite first appearing on the scene in 1928's "Meet the Tiger", author Leslie Charteris promoted this volume from 1930 as the proper introduction of Simon Templar, aka "The Saint"...