Liz, the crime novelist is Martha Grimes, an American who lives in Maryland and writes a series of mysteries with a large permanent cast. Titles which she says are authentic pub names include The Man With a Load of Mischief, The Old Fox Deceived, The Anodyne Necklace, The Dirty Duck, Jerusalem Inn, Help the Poor Struggler, The Deer Leap, I Am the Only Running Footman, The Five Bells and Bladebone, The Old Silent, The Old Contemptibles, The End of the Pier, The Horse You Came In On (the Baltimore one), Rainbow's End (?American), Hotel Paradise (?New Mexico), The Case Has Altered, The Stargazey, Biting the Moon (?) , The Lamora Wink. My favorite which she has not yet written about is The Silent Woman with the logo of a headless maiden.