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:
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.
The programme can be found here.
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