Val Culley

Why Christmas is a good time for a crime story This collection brings together some top crime writers The dark days leading up to the festiv...

Alleyn investigates the killing of a Home Secretary New Zealand-born crime writer Ngaio Marsh displays an impressive wealth of knowledge abo...

Bude’s talent for detective fiction is now entertaining new readers The British Library Crime Classics edition of The Cornish Coast Murders ...

Remembering crime writer H R F Keating on the 95th anniversary of his birth The Verdict of Us All is a collection of stories by some of the ...

Barrister turned crime writer offered readers a snapshot of 1920s life C H B Kitchin, whose skill as a writer was only one of many talents M...

Who came first: Miss Silver or Miss Marple? Grey Mask, originally published in 1928, was republished 90 years later Patricia Wentworth’s f...

Aristocrat also thought to have created the first female fictional detective Baroness Orczy was from an  aristocratic family in Hungary Brit...