Odin's Ravens

Agatha Christie and her novels “During domestic chores I could always relax my mind completely.  Robert Graves once said to me that washing ...

George Segal and Alec Guinness in "The Quiller Memorandum" Watching The Quiller Memorandum from 1966.  “We’ve been engaged in some...

The film was retitled for U.S. release My great friend and mentor Elleston Trevor wrote novels that were made (and remade) into major...

Here’s John Barry, the composer, and George Segal , the star, on The Quiller Memorandum , the film made from my friend and men...

At yesterday’s Mattoon Library book sale , I picked up a half-dozen hardcover novels, including Felice Picano’s “The Lure,” two ...

Here my thoughts on 10 books that have stayed with me ever since I read them, in no particular order: —    Plotting and Writ...

“The Quiller Memorandum” (1966) is an excellent, low-key spy film. Morally ironic, almost eerie at times, this film’s protago...

Editor’s note: This column about my late friend and mentor Elleston Trevor originally appeared in the July 26, 1995, edition of the Sulli...