It’s actually harder to come across a body in the library than you might expect. Agatha Christie described this trope as one of the ‘cliches’ of ‘the detective story’. Over the course of her career, only 5 people are killed in this room in her mystery novels, although she does have some further library victims […]| crossexaminingcrime
As a fan of Agatha Christie and audio drama, I am surprised at myself. Somehow I never clocked that Audible had released another adaptation of a Poirot adventure. This is even more surprising to me given that I'm an Audible member, so I already had access to this. I'm not quite sure what their algorithm was up to there...| Mysteries Ahoy!
Hi all: I bring you a book by a classic and very famous writer, although it was quite a surprise to me, and not one I had come across before. It is not one of her best, in my opinion, but it is a f…| Just Olga
Oscar-nominated British actor Albert Finney has died aged 82 after a short illness.| The League of Austen Artists
A few years ago I happened to mention a Valentine Williams novel in the course of a piece on mysteries written by bridge players (found here). Williams himself was not a bridge player but his co-author of Fog (1932), Dorothy Rice Sims, was a national champion. In the brief paragraph about that particular book I mentioned […]| Noah's Archives
