Tag: Writing
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The Twist #14
Don Blaney figured that he should share the sensational revelation that Freddie Black was a Special Branch agent with his friend George Hegarty (as the two men had been in regular contact since George’s arrest)but without betraying the man who had put himself at some professional risk to warn him. On neutral ground, Don met…
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The Twist #8
During the next three years Don heard little about the ammunition except for the one occasion when the sergeant who had arrested him turned up at his house one evening, a couple of days after his release from custody, to offer him a deal: tell him all that he knew about George Hegarty and the…
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The Twist #7
Don’s arrest and release made for some lurid headlines, fed to the press by the guards and fuelled by a crank call to a local radio station claiming that bank notes and been seen billowing from Don’s chimney, which then morphed into a story of unnamed neighbours claiming that there had been a fire in…
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Crime Fiction: The genres within the genre
I was once asked why I had chosen to write crime fiction out of all the genres that were available to me. It took me a while to figure out an answer as it hadn’t occurred to me that I was writing crime fiction at that time. My reasons for writing my first novel What…
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Yardies and Even More Badness
Unfortunately, with the passing of time the Yardie has become something of aromanticized figure but if you were living in the West Midlands when the Yardies werearound you would know that they were viewed as anything but. Theirs was a reign ofterror that was relatively short; a bit like many of their lives as individuals.…
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Heightening The Senses
It may sound a little crazy, but sometimes when I’m out on a trail I close my eyes for as many steps as I feel brave enough to take to heighten the 4 remaining senses that naturally get diluted by the 5th. For me, my purpose for hiking is not only to get exercise that…
Ralph Robb 