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Background romance adds extra interest to investigation The 2016 Hodder edition of the novel, first published in 1932 Lord Peter Wimsey’s ...

A murky tale of murder among the Morris men and pig farmers The Vintage edition of  Death Comes at Christmas We get a glimpse of Mrs Bradl...

An intriguing mystery told with humour and well-drawn characters The British Library edition of Farjeon's Thirteen Guests   Thirteen...

A fishing story with no red herrings to confuse the trail Death Is No Sportsman was first published in 1938 The sport of fly fishing is at...

Madness and witchcraft in a village that seems to be living in the Middle Ages The Devil at Saxon Wall is the sixth Mrs Bradley mystery P...

An award winning masterpiece by the Queen of Crime The latest HarperCollins reprint of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christies’s sixt...

Solving a seemingly impossible murder Dickson's story appears in the collection A Surprise for Christmas Golden Age mystery writers wr...

Inspector Mallett joins the ranks of fictional detectives who like a good lunch Tenant for Death is published by Faber and Faber When two ...

Author departs from tradition by letting her detective fall in love Strong Poison is the fifth of Dorothy L Sayers's Wimsey novels Dor...

Author was a bank clerk by day and a novelist by night A new edition of Murder in Blue was published in 2021 Clifford Witting, who was bor...

The creator of academic sleuth Dr Priestley also invented Eric the Skull Cecil Street, whose pen names included John Rhode  The writer known...