We can now confirm the following speakers will also be appearing at this year’s conference (in addition to those previously announced):

Kate Ellis – author of the best-selling Wesley Peterson series of mysteries

Moira Redmond – commentator on, amongst other things, Clothes in Books

Len Tyler – CWA Dagger winning author

Jake Kerridge – crime fiction critic for the Daily Telegraph

Christine Poulson – author of the Cassandra James and Katie Flanagan mystery series

Jim Noy – author of The Invisible Event blog on (frequently) impossible crime fiction

Daniel Curtis – author of The Reader is Warned blog

Kate Jackson – compiler of the The Pocket Detective puzzles published by The British Library

Steve Barge – the moving force behind the recent republication of Brian Flynn’s novels

The budding Hercule Poirots amongst you may deduce that Steve Barge will be talking on Brian Flynn – one of the topics already announced – but what of the other speakers? What will be their subjects? With less than 24 hours left before the Early Bird discount expires you can ensure you find out by booking for the conference today.

We can now reveal some (but not all – we want to keep some surprises up our sleeve) of the topics that are going to be covered in this year’s conference.

There will be sessions on classic authors such as Ngaio Marsh and Gladys Mitchell.

And in a salute to our cousins across the Atlantic who will be celebrating their Independence on the day of the conference, there will be a focus on an American “Crime Queen” – the pseudonymous Ellery Queen.

We are also delighted to include a session on a hitherto overlooked author whose works are only now returning into print after a hiatus that, I’m sure our speakers will argue, has been too long: Brian Flynn.

These are just a taste of the goodies we have in store for you and we promise more treats to be revealed shortly.

The only way to be sure not to miss out is to book your place – and there are only a few days left before the Early Bird Discount period expires – so the time to act is now.

The programme for this year’s conference is nearly finalised. We are just working on the details for the last couple of slots (who will appear with whom and take what aspects of the topic for discussion) before we go live with the planned programme.

I can’t resist mentioning though that we have sessions featuring Tony Medawar, Martin Edwards, Alison Joseph and our own John Curran (who has just been nominated for an Edgar for his book The Hooded Gunman – available at all good bookshops!). We are also thrilled to welcome a speaker new to our conferences but, we are sure, familiar to those of us who discuss Golden Age Detective Fiction online, Curtis Evans.

Topics for this year include Ellery Queen, S. S. Van Dine and Gladys Mitchell.

We will be announcing more speakers and topics very soon.

In the meantime, if you haven’t already booked your tickets, don’t miss out on the Early Bird Discount which applies for only a short while longer and saves you £5 on the ticket price.