The Colonel, in the Garden, with the Impact of Wry Melancholy: Margaret Mayhew’s Detective Novels
I recently read six novels by Margaret Mayhew, after stumbling across her work in the back catalogue of Joffe Books …
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Inspector Morse, Universities and Detective Fiction at York Festival of Ideas
This Sunday I’ll be speaking at York Festival of Ideas about universities and detective fiction, and you’re welcome to attend. …
Review: “Murder to Music” by Margaret Newman
Murder to Music was published in 1959, the first novel of a promising detective novelist who apparently then left the …
Guns in the Vicarage: On the Textual Criticism of Detective Fiction
Textual criticism isn’t a discipline often employed in the study of detective fiction, as far as I know. The establishing …
Dangerous Dolphins and Old-fashioned Fish: A Pair of Ngaio Marsh Detective Covers
There have been a lot of Ngaio Marsh novels on my desk recently, and a couple of them give me …
Midcentury Jacobeans: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and “The Duchess of Malfi”
I’ve had some cheering news recently: a scholarly article of mine is going to be published in the journal ELH …
“Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare
Yesterday the journal Shakespeare published an article entitled “Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare”. The reason …
A Diversity of Lanyards
This is a bit of a departure for me – a detective story. After all that reading of the classics, …
On Not Judging a (Detective) Book by its (Back) Cover
I’ve written a few pieces on the covers of paperback detective novels recently, because I know how to have a …
Murder and Motive: A Sermon on the Death of John the Baptist
I expect you’re wondering why I called you all here this evening. Sorry, this morning. We’re assembled here in the …
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