[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GlAhQtbNR0] I meet Frank Haskins in a pub in central London. It’s one he picked and the moment I step through the door I can see why. The walls are covered with pictures of Sherlock Holmes, London’s greatest detective in every single one of his guises. Basil Rathbone’s lightfooted near-swashbuckler, the precise, hawk nosed …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqqgrUna28w] The Chief Judge sat on her perch and watched the city fall away beneath her. No one ever called the Chief Judge’s office the Perch, at least not officially, but that was the only name that made sense. At the top of the Hall of Justice, sat between the eyes of the Department’s …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeumyOzKqgI] Old spies don’t die they just go deeper under cover. He’d said that to her, his skin like paper, the oxygen mask capturing the words so he had to fight to push them out. She’d smiled and nodded, that precise, disciplined gesture that she only allowed herself when it was all she …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WQrLuaMBMw] (Usual rules apply; any name and title is clickable) I’ve loved movies since I was seven, and my Mum was a private care nurse for a very nice lady who lived about a quarter of a mile away. Some days, after she picked me up from school, she’d take me there and …