Tag Archives: detective fiction

Post-Referendum Reading – Vigilante

Posted on August 3, 2016 by forwardtranslations

I haven’t been reading much lately, or it’s been taking me much longer to get through books than usual. There are all sorts of reasons for this, to do with family life, too much time on social media or playing … Continue reading →

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Not a Word out of Place – Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep

Posted on February 24, 2014 by forwardtranslations

After Snow White Must Die – another book where I was itching to get out my red pencil – I discovered that it was the 70th anniversary of the creation of Raymond Chandler’s iconic private detective Philip Marlowe. I’d been … Continue reading →

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Snow White Must Die

Posted on February 12, 2014 by forwardtranslations

Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus, translated from German by Steven T. Murray (Pan Macmillan, 2012), certainly benefits from an eyecatching title and cover as well as “international bestseller status” and inclusion in Richard and Judy’s Book Club. Weirdly, … Continue reading →

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Irritating Beyond Measure: Ian Sansom’s The Norfolk Mystery

Posted on November 4, 2013 by forwardtranslations

What the Publisher Says About It: Love Miss Marple? Adore Holmes and Watson? Professor Morley’s guide to Norfolk is a story of bygone England; quaint villages, eccentric locals – and murder! It is 1937 and disillusioned Spanish Civil War veteran … Continue reading →

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History, Fiction and Richard III, Part 1: The Daughter of Time

Posted on February 10, 2013 by forwardtranslations

Between getting over a bout of flu and catching up on all my work it’s going to be tricky to find time for the blog for a while, but my brain is whirling with ideas for posts on a certain … Continue reading →

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Of Books and TV Adaptations: The Wings of the Sphinx

Posted on January 10, 2013 by forwardtranslations

One of the first of my Christmas present books that I got through was the 11th in Andrea Camilleri‘s Montalbano series, The Wings of the Sphinx. It was also the first one I’d read where I’d seen the TV version … Continue reading →

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Behold a Pale Horse by Peter Tremayne – a rant

Posted on July 19, 2012 by forwardtranslations

I normally wait until I’ve finished reading a book before posting about it, but this is going to be more of a rant than a review! Having finished the excellent but mammoth Traveller of the Century, I was in the … Continue reading →

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S is for (Andreas) Steinhöfel…

Posted on May 20, 2012 by forwardtranslations

… a multi-award winning German author and translator. His books Dirk und Ich (My Brother and I) and The Centre of My World have also been translated into English, but the most widely available is The Pasta Detectives, published in … Continue reading →

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E is for ‘Emil and the Detectives’

Posted on May 6, 2012 by forwardtranslations

Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner was first published in Germany in 1929 and had its first UK edition not long afterwards, in 1931. Gillian Lathey has argued that Emil was the Harry Potter of his day in terms … Continue reading →

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Should a Translation Improve on the Original?

Posted on March 21, 2012 by forwardtranslations

I very much enjoy Peter Rozovsky’s blog Detectives Beyond Borders and his take on crime fiction from around the world. However, I was taken aback by a recent post on Amateurish prose in a translation from Japanese, specifically this bit: … Continue reading →

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