Val Culley

Dorothy turns Lord Peter into a man of action as well as words The second Dorothy L Sayers novel featuring amateur detective Lord Peter Wi...

Talented New Zealander contributed to art, the theatre and crime writing Ngaio Marsh pictured in 1935,  early in her writing career One of t...

Roman Catholic Monsignor lays down the ‘fair play’ rules for crime writers Ronald Knox was a priest as well as a crime writer Ronald Knox,...

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

Use your memories to help you write with assurance Many crime writers believe the setting is one of the most important elements in a novel...

  How the genre of detective fiction originated Hatred, violence and evil frequently lead to murder in the real world.  The devastating grie...

Dorothy’s dazzling debut detective novel Having read the first crime novel by Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, published ...