"The Killer Inside You"

David McWilliam has sent us details of the latest event in the Twisted Tales series at Waterstone's, Liverpool One on Thursday 19th May, 6-8 p.m. (Liverpool One is not the postal district but a big shopping mall near Lime St Station.) It's called The Killer Inside You: Horror in Crime Fiction, and will feature readings from three top crime writers (John Connolly, Steve Mosby, and Charlie Williams) that utilize the tropes, techniques and/or atmospheres of horror. There will then be a Q&A session about how the two genres overlap and intersect.  Tickets cost £2 but can be redeemed against a crime or horror book purchased on the night. There's a nice flyer too...

"Cover-up" at Oscar Wilde trial?

The Independent on Sunday has an interesting story about the discovery of love-letters between Lord Alfred Douglas and Maurice Schwabe, a member of WIlde's circle who was also the Solicitor-General's nephew. Schwabe was mentioned in the Marquis of Queensbury's Plea of Justification in the libel trial as one of the men Wilde allegedly incited to commit sodomy (R. Elmann, Oscar Wilde, pp. 416-7), but he left the country, didn't testify and wasn't named in court. All very interesting but as a boring pedantic lawyer I'm not sure it counts as "cover up". Was the relationship between Schwabe and Bosie actually relevant to either of the trials?

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