Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History, by Susanna Lee
Clive Bloom finds the rap sheet on an iconic cultural figure frustratingly incomplete
Clive Bloom finds the rap sheet on an iconic cultural figure frustratingly incomplete
Clive Bloom considers the development of a particularly disturbing form of crime
Clive Bloom enjoys a sociological study of why a group of rich layabouts became crooks – and how society dealt with them
Clive Bloom on the utopians who struggled to realise their dream of a building a secular socialist Jewish state in Europe
Support for the monarchy is not this sceptred isle's only narrative, insists Clive Bloom. From Thomas Paine to bolshie bunting-subverters, arguments for a Republic weave in and out of our national...