If you didn’t already have a motive to attend the Bodies From The Library Conference on 20th June this year – delegates will have the exclusive opportunity to buy advance copies of the British Library Crime Classics novel The Magic-Lantern Murders by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr’s alter ego) which will not go on sale to the general public until a month later.

And as a Bristol resident, I am intrigued by the cover – the view of the Clifton Suspension Bridge across the Avon Gorge which I see most days. I feel a purchase coming on!