I promised you more podcast, and wouldn’t have blamed you for not believing me; but more podcast there is today for your listening pleasure. Martin Edwards, current President of the Detection Club and winner of just about every crime writing award going, has a new book out next week: the very enjoyable and playful Miss … Continue reading In GAD We Trust – Episode 34: Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife (2025) and The (Expanded) Golden Age of Murder (2025) by Martin Edwards [w’ Mar...| The Invisible Event
“[H]ow stressful can this game really be? A few nights in a peaceful hamlet at Christmas, trying to make sense of a puzzle? What could possibly go wrong?”. Well, an unseasonally heavy snowfall could maroon everyone, and then a murderer could start picking off the isolated denizens of the peaceful hamlet of Midwinter. But, if … Continue reading #1341: Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife (2025) by Martin Edwards| The Invisible Event
Today I am reviewing Martin Edwards’ latest publication, a non-series title, which also happens to be his first Christmas mystery novel. I have been aware of this book since last Christmas and at the time I was immediately intrigued by the title, which echoes the language of Cluedo, which in turns emphasises the game playing […]| crossexaminingcrime
September, traditionally one of the weakest months for the number of books that I manage to read. Term starts, with its usual plethora of distractions as classes begin again and piles of paperwork cut into my reading time. And buying a PS5 probably didn’t help either, as I run around Japan assassinating people. Thanks to […]| In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel
Nestled in North Yorkshire lies Midwinter, a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Run by the Midwinter Trust, this year a selection of six people, all with links to the world of crime-writing, ha…| In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel
Introduction “The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane” is one of the 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. First published in The Liberty, an American publication in November 1926, it was later collected as part of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes in 1927, the final volume of Holmes […]| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Introduction The Adventure of the Gloria Scott” is one of the earliest tales in the Sherlock Holmes canon—not in terms of publication, but in the life of Holmes himself. It holds a unique position as a kind of origin story, revealing the moment when a young, university-aged Sherlock first flexed his deductive muscles. Told as […]| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
“My New Year’s resolution is to murder a man I’ve never met” — thus does Basil Palmer lay out his intentions at the very start of his journal in Hemlock Bay (2024) by …| The Invisible Event
Years ago, as a younger and callower man, I swore that the only Sherlock Holmes stories I would read were those written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Then I became a John Dickson Carr fan, and it’s …| The Invisible Event
As I mentioned the other day, I have acquired enough Michael Gilbert novels in the last while to devote an entire post to them en masse. Lately I picked up an armful of paperbacks, and I went out and supplanted that with e-books as my fancy took me. As you will soon see, when I want […]| Noah's Archives
