American Mystery Classics Collection

Penguin presents timeless reads for slower summers: the American Mystery Classics collection is a chance to revisit the great American crime novels that shaped the genre, perfect for fans of golden age detectives, locked-room stories, and mysteries featuring cats. Curated by Otto Penzler, the world’s foremost authority on crime fiction, the series brings together the smartest, cosiest, most ingenious mysteries of the Golden Age and beyond, newly presented for modern readers

Timeless Reads 

for Slower Summers

14th May 2026        14th May 2026            11th June 2026

             9th July 2026,    17th September 2026  17th September 2026

Discover a collection of forgotten classics – the ultimate suitcase library

 

About the Author

Otto Penzler owns The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and founded the Mysterious Press and Otto Penzler Books. He has written and edited several books, including the Edgar Award-winning Encyclopaedia of Mystery and Detection, and is the series editor of the annual Best American Mystery Stories of the Year.

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:

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Details  

Name: Bodies from the Library
Where: Conference Centre               The British Library               96 Euston Road               London, NW1 2DB	Show map      How to get to the Library
When: Sat 20 Jun 2015, 09:00 - 17:30
Enquiries: + 44(0) 1937 546546 /   boxoffice@bl.uk

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