Following the Detectives in Shropshire

Maxim Jakubowski's book Following the Detectives should appear later this year, and as I've mentioned before, I've contributed a couple of essays to it. By coincidence, over the past two week-ends, I've revisited the scenes of crime fiction that I've discussed in Maxim's book.

On the way down to the CWA conference in Abergavenny, we drove through Shropshire, one of the greenest and pleasantest of counties. Ellis Peters, a native Salopian, was passionate about Shropshire, and that passion...