Recommendations from Jake Kerridge and Moira Redmond (requested by many attendees at this year’s conference):

Taking Detective Stories Seriously – the collected crime reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers with an introduction by Martin Edwards

Murder for Pleasure – the life and times of the Detective Story by Howard Haycraft

Snobbery with Violence – English crime stories and their audience by Colin Watson

The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards

Guilty but Insane – Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction by Samantha Walton

Deadlier than the Male by Jessica Mann

The Hooded Gunman – an illustrated history of the Collins Crime Club by John Curran

Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James

Murder Ink – the mystery reader’s companion by Dilys Winn

Murderess Ink – the better half of the mystery by Dilys Winn

A Catalogue of Crime by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor

Bloody Murder – from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: A History by Julian Symons

The Bedside Companion to Crime by H. R. F. Keating

The Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story  – from Sherlock Holmes to Van der Valk by Erik Routley

Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? by Pierre Bayard

The novels of Gilbert Adair

A Talent To Deceive – an appreciation of Agatha Christie by Robert Barnard