Books by Nap Lombard
“Pamela Hansford Johnson and Gordon Neil Stewart wrote two detective novels together as Nap Lombard. Murder’s a Swine has a brilliant, and very accurate contemporary feeling. The detectives are a married couple, and you can imagine that Pamela and Neil are giving some of their own relationship to Andrew and Agnes in the book.” Read more...
The Best Wartime Mystery Books
Caroline Crampton, Memoirist
Interviews where books by Nap Lombard were recommended
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Checkmate to Murder: A Second World War Mystery
by E.C.R. Lorac -
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Traitor's Purse: The Albert Campion Mysteries
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N or M?: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery
by Agatha Christie -
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Death in Captivity: A Second World War Mystery
by Michael Gilbert -
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Murder's a Swine: A Second World War Mystery
by Nap Lombard
The Best Wartime Mystery Books, recommended by Caroline Crampton
The Best Wartime Mystery Books, recommended by Caroline Crampton
The ‘golden age’ of detective fiction is usually considered to end suddenly with the outbreak of the Second World War. But many of the era’s leading novelists continued to write prolifically throughout, says Caroline Crampton, creator of the popular Shedunnit podcast. Here she selects five of the best wartime mysteries.
