Awards/Festivals

  • Dorothy L. Sayers and the Enduring Legacy of a Marriage of True Minds

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    –Originally delivered as the Annual Speech (28 June 2023) for the Dorothy L. Sayers Society, edited. Exactly a hundred years ago this October, Dorothy L Sayers published Whose Body? It launched her career as an illustrious author of eleven novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey that changed the detective genre forever.  Sayers was, quite simply, unique….

  • Following Agatha Christie’s Footsteps in Torquay

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    I am sitting on the sweeping terrace of the Imperial hotel in Torquay, England, looking out over the breathtakingly blue water of the bay, soaking up crime fiction history.  This is Christie country, the place where Agatha Christie was born, and the venue for the International Agatha Christie festival every September. The Imperial is where…

  • The Best Reviewed Books of Summer 2023

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    A look at the best reviewed fiction from June, July, and August. * Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Doubleday) “Crook Manifesto is a dazzling treatise, a glorious and intricate anatomy of the heist, the con and the slow game. There’s an element of crime here, certainly, but as in Whitehead’s previous books, genre isn’t the point….


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