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Looking East
Expanding the horizons of golden age detective fiction.
The Queen of True Crime
F. Tennyson Jesse created a way of telling crime stories that still influences us today.
The Long Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe
The grandfather of detective fiction still has a lot to teach us.
Death By Chocolate
A box of chocolates can conceal a poisonous secret.
The Detective's Best Friend
Join me for a long-awaited guided tour of the role that dogs play in detective fiction.
An Encounter With Father Brown
Let's spend some time with G.K. Chesterton, the first president of the Detection Club.
Agatha鈥檚 Archaeologists
Agatha Christie knew more than most about digging up corpses.
A Second Century of Whodunnits
Reading my way through the last hundred years, one mystery at a time.
The Whodunnit in India
India has a long and deep tradition of storytelling and mythology 鈥斅燼nd now mysteries.
The Tichborne Claimant
Detective fiction is obsessed with identity. This Victorian legal case is the reason why.