CHRISTINE POULSON Maxim Jakubowski Archives

Ink and Daggers

Posted on Sep 1, 2023 in Christopher Fowler, Ink and Daggers, Maxim Jakubowski | 3 Comments

It is always nice to get back from holiday and find that a book has arrived in the post and it’s even nicer when the book contains one of your own short stories. I’ve written elsewhere on my website about how much I enjoy the short story form. It is possible be playful and experimental […]

Writing a locked room mystery

Posted on Jul 1, 2020 in 'The House in Goblin Wood', John Dickson Carr, Maxim Jakubowski, The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths | 4 Comments

I love a locked room mystery, so when the call came for contributions to an anthology of stories featuring impossible crimes, I jumped at the chance to write one of my own. My story, ‘The House by the Thames,’ is by way of being a tribute to the master of locked room mysteries, John Dickson […]

Does it matter if you guess the ending?

Posted on Jun 8, 2016 in After The Crash, Barry Forshaw, guessing the ending, Joan Smith, Maxim Jakubowski, Michel Bussi, plot twists | 8 Comments

Joan Smith thought After the Crash was ‘one of the most remarkable books I’ve read in a long time’, Maxim Jakubowski called it ‘a compulsive page-turner’ and Barry Forshaw said ‘Michel Bussi knows exactly how to keep the reader turning page after page.’ So I was expecting great things, and maybe that was the part […]

The Adventures of Moriarty

Posted on Oct 13, 2015 in Maxim Jakubowski, The Adventures of Moriarty | No Comments

I always enjoy writing a story to a brief and ‘The Mystery of the Missing Child’ was no exception. I’d been thinking for a while that I’d like to try my hand at a Sherlock Holmes pastiche. So when Maxim Jakubowski put out a call for stories featuring Holmes’s arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty, ‘the Napoleon of […]