by Peter Bartram | Jan 25, 2019 | Exclusive
THE MYSTERY OF THE TWO SUITCASES By Peter Bartram Author Editor Journalist FacebookTwitter “We’ve got the evening all to ourselves.” My girlfriend Shirley raised her glass of white wine. I hoisted my G&T. We clinked glasses and wished each other a...
by Peter Bartram | Oct 25, 2018 | Exclusive
WHY I’VE LAUNCHED THE DEADLINE MURDER SERIES By Peter Bartram Author Editor Journalist FacebookTwitter There are two main reasons – creative and practical – for launching a new series of Crampton of the Chronicle adventures. The Tango School Mystery was...
by Peter Bartram | Apr 4, 2018 | Exclusive
HOW I GOT THE IDEA FOR THE TANGO SCHOOL MYSTERY By Peter Bartram Author Editor Journalist FacebookTwitter I was 18 years old when I sold my first story to a UK national newspaper. I was working as a junior reporter on the Worthing Herald in my “gap year”...
by Peter Bartram | Feb 26, 2018 | Exclusive
The Tango School Mystery Chapter 1 By Peter Bartram Author Editor Journalist FacebookTwitter My Australian girlfriend Shirley looked at her porterhouse steak and said: “That’s a real beaut, Colin.” The lump of meat which overlapped Shirl’s...
by Peter Bartram | Jan 10, 2018 | Exclusive
The dying days of hanging By Peter Bartram Author Editor Journalist FacebookTwitter The trouble with hanging as a punishment is always that it’s irreversible when a miscarriage of justice is discovered. In Britain, there is a sad list of real people who paid the...
by Peter Bartram | Oct 31, 2017 | Exclusive
Front page murder By Peter Bartram Author Editor Journalist FacebookTwitter It always started with the same ritual. Percy Despart opened the drawer in the small desk by the side of his artist’s easel and took out his Swiss penknife. He held it for a moment and...
by Peter Bartram | Oct 4, 2017 | Exclusive
So let’s talk about “funny money” Confused about pounds, shillings and pence? Help is at hand… By Peter Bartram Author Editor Journalist FacebookTwitter I was sitting in a café with my girlfriend Shirley when she pointed at a bloke wearing some fancy...
by Peter Bartram | Sep 4, 2017 | Exclusive
How to be deadly serious about humerous crime fiction By Peter Bartram Author Editor Journalist FacebookTwitter When you decide to write humorous crime fiction you have to think of a few more points than those writers who’ve decided to play it straight. First,...
by Peter Bartram | Aug 4, 2017 | Exclusive
How I found Colin Crampton on a dark night By Peter Bartram Author Editor Journalist FacebookTwitter The scene is an ill-lit street in Worthing, a coastal town in West Sussex. The time: February 1966. A young reporter is walking back to his newspaper’s office...
by Peter Bartram | Jul 4, 2017 | Exclusive
The Morning, Noon & Night trilogy Three books, three murders… ONE MOTIVE! And you can read chapter 1 of the forst book here By Peter Bartram Author Editor Journalist FacebookTwitter My Australian girlfriend Shirley took a luscious lick of her ice-cream and...
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