Val Culley

Successful decade for Bergamo’s first British crime novel  Death in the High City, the first detective novel written in English to be set in...

  Shelved in Shepshed   By Val Culley   Sallie knew it was going to be ‘one of those days’ before the library had even opened to cus...

  How Ngaio Marsh first started writing crime stories Ngaio Marsh in a picture thought to have been taken in around 1935 Dame Edith Ngai...

Library ‘click and collect’ services are providing a lifeline for readers Avid readers are braving the snow and the rain during the winter l...

Margery Allingham introduces her series detective Albert Campion Fans of classic crime fiction still enjoy reading the work of authors fro...

D id the book inspire the shed, or did the shed suggest the book? Earlier this year I converted our old, wooden garden shed into a library...

T he Body Parts in the Library arrives at a library! Partners in crime There are many significant milestones when you write a novel, such as...

Have library assistants become an endangered species? Libraries have been under pressure for several years because of economic cuts I have a...

Agatha Christie had her first novel published when she was 30 years old Imagine being the best-selling novelist of all time. Imagine being s...

Exciting new local author! It was a proud moment seeing my novel, Death in the High City , on display in a public library for the first time...