Saturday 30 May 2015

Bodies from the Library at the British LIbrary


British Library Crime classics series shows that the public appetite for a well-constructed murder mystery has not diminished –

The success of the British Library Crime classics series shows that the public appetite for a well-constructed murder mystery has not diminished since the heyday of Christie and Sayers. Whether you are a fan of the gifted amateur detective – Lord Peter Wimsey, Gervase Fen – or the tenacious policeman – Inspector French, Roderick Alleyn – you will hear these, and many others, discussed by experts in the field. If you like puzzles – the body found in the middle of a snow-covered lawn with no footprints, the corpse found in a room locked from the inside; unbreakable alibis and unexpected murderers; books with floor-plans of the manor and timetables of the suspects’ movements; surprise solutions on the last page, the last paragraph, the last line – then you need to attend:


Subjects include:

o   Margery Allingham (B. A. Pike, author of Campion’s Career),
o   John Dickson Carr (Tony Medawar, editor of collections by Golden Age authors Anthony Berkeley and Christianna Brand)
o   Agatha Christie (Dr. John Curran, author of Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks)
o   Edmund Crispin (Richard Reynolds, Chair of the CWA Gold Dagger committee)
o   Freeman Wills Crofts (Dolores Gordon Smith, author of the Jack Haldean series)
o   The Detection Club (Martin Edwards, detective novelist and author of a new book on that famous club, The Golden Age of Murder)
o   And journalist Jake Kerridge and novelist L. C. Tyler will discuss the Golden Age, old and new.

The programme can be found here.

Tickets available from:


Details  

Name: Bodies from the Library

Where: Conference Centre
              The British Library
              96 Euston Road
              London, NW1 2DB

When: Sat 20 Jun 2015, 09:00 - 17:30

Enquiries: + 44(0) 1937 546546 /   boxoffice@bl.uk
                                      

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