We are delighted to be able to share with fans of Golden Age Detective Fiction the recording of the sold out Bodies From The Library Conference held online on Saturday 15 May 2021.

You can access a recording of the whole of the conference using the link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/05dwdRhFFOcwHSn3nOa4f7m_77sHK7h9I2-9f-WjgNCN4U-N25rvQAKPkL-MpgPM.cSnOpVCKvfEj5xB3

The password to view the recording is: T=Hg7=.Y

We ask that you respect the copyright of the speakers and do not copy, share or reproduce any images or recording of the conference. We are, of course, happy for you to share a link to this page through which the conference recording can be accessed.

Here is a list of (most of) the titles mentioned by the speakers during the conference on Saturday.

Enid Blyton: The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage

John Dickson Carr:  Till Death Us Do Part (BL edition due August 2021)

Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep

G.K.Chesterton: The Wisdom of Father Brown

Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None

                              The 13 Problems

Freeman Wills Crofts: The Starvel Hollow Tragedy

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study In Scarlet

Brian Flynn: The Billiard Room Mystery 
                        The Creeping Jenny Mystery 
                        Five Red Fingers

                        The Mystery of the Peacock’s Eye

                        Tread Softly

Richard Austin Freeman: The D’Arblay Mystery

Jacques Futrelle: The Thinking Machine

Erle Stanley Gardner: The D.A. Draws a Circle

Francis Noyes Hart: The Bellamy Trial

Francis Iles: Malice Aforethought

Gladys Mitchell: Death at the Opera

                              The Longer Bodies

                              The Rising of the Moon

                              The Saltmarsh Murders
                              Speedy Death

Baroness Orczy: The Tea House Detective (The Old Man In The Corner)

Q.Patrick : Cottage Sinister

                    Murder at Cambridge

                    S.S. Murder

Arthur Porges: The Curious Cases of Cyriack Skinner Grey

Patrick Quentin: Black Widow

                               The Man with Two Wives

Micky Spillane: I, the Jury

Craig Rice: Home Sweet Homicide

Theodore Roscoe: Murder On The Way

Harriet Rutland: Blue Murder

Anthony and Peter Shaffer: Withered Murder

Jonathan Stagge: The Dogs Do Bark

                               The Scarlet Circle

Arthur W Upfield: Death Of A Swagman

S.S. Van Dine: The Benson Murder Case

Seishi Yokomizo: The Honjin Murders

We can’t promise all of these are still in print – in fact we are sure some of them aren’t – so you may need to trawl second hand bookstores (real and virtual) to track them all down.

We have now emailed a link to everyone who has registered to enable them to join the conference on Zoom.

If you have registered and don’t think you have received a link to join the conference, please check your emails, including spam/junk folders.

If you haven’t received a link then contact us through the website and we will do our best to resolve the problem for you.

We look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday.

We know it is short notice – there is barely a week to go to the online Bodies From the Library Conference 2021 – but we also are aware that many of you like to know some of the books that are going to be discussed at the conference. There might not be time to order the books suggested by the speakers and read them before the conference but if you have any of them on your shelves already then you can look them out and remind yourselves of their contents.

Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club – editor Martin Edwards

When Last I Died – Gladys Mitchell

The Rising of The Moon – Gladys Mitchell

The Saltmarsh Murders – Gladys Mitchell

The Mystery of The Peacock’s Eye – Brian Flynn

The Murders Near Mapleton  – Brian Flynn

Murder En Route – Brian Flynn

The Fortescue Candle – Brian Flynn

Tread Softly – Brian Flynn

The Grindle Nightmare* – Q. Patrick

Black Widow** – Patrick Quentin

Death’s Old Sweet Song* – Jonathan Stagge

The Cases of Lieutenant Timothy Trant – Q. Patrick

Hunt in the Dark and Other Deadly Pursuits*** 

*Not currently in print in the UK but available in USA
** Not currently in print
*** To be published in 2021 by Crippen & Landru