<div id="subtitle">Hillary Waugh, prolific mystery writer, dies at 88 in Connecticut after brief illness</div><div><p>Novelist Hillary Waugh, whose prolific career introduced generations of mystery readers to small-town intrigue and police techniques rooted in real investigations, has died in Connecticut. He was 88.</p><p ...

<div><p> Raymond Chandler once praised Dashiell Hammett for having given murder back to the sort of people who committed it. One knows what he meant; away with murders at the vicarage or on the Orient Express (where, however, a good few have doubtless taken place). Yet it wasn't really a very intelligent observation because ...

<div><p> Important politicians are no longer content just to deliver their speeches. They or their spinners privately make known to lobby correspondents in advance the message which the impending speech will send to voters.</p><p> But the advance spin is not always the same as the delivered speech. The spin ...