Val Culley

Novelist and Travel Writer

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The true identity of detective novelist Michael Innes

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Academic created a series detective who went on to have a 50-year career The cover of the Agora Books edition of the first Appleby novel Mic...
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Strong Poison

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

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A light-hearted caper with a satisfying ending The cover of the 2017 edition,  published by Harper Collins Agatha Christie once again chos...
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Danger Point by Patricia Wentworth

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Not so much a whodunit, more a question of who is trying to do it Danger Point was first  published in 1941 The self-effacing, elderly lad...
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Murder in Blue

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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...
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The Man in the Queue

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The novel that introduces the likeable but fallible Inspector Alan Grant The Arrow edition of The Man in the Queue A man is found with a s...
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Bats in the Belfry by E C R Lorac

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Remembering an early writer of the police procedural The British Library Crime Classics edition Bats in the Belfry, the 13th novel in the s...
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