Mark Campbell has written for The Independent, Midweek, Crime Time and The Dark Side, and is one of the main contributors to the two-volume British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia. He has written Pocket Essentials on Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie and Carry on Films. He lives in Kent and was the last theatre critic for The Kentish Times when they published reviews. He directs and appears in plays when he's not busy reading his collection of Whizzer and Chips comics.