We are very lucky to have Simon Brett joining The Bodies From The Library Conference.

Simon will be speaking alongside Martin Edwards about the Detection Club and the collaborative novels of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

If you have ever wondered about the perfect crime – committing it, or solving it – Tony Medawar’s suggested reading for his talk at The Bodies From The Library Conference on 28th June should give you food for thought. For his full list of recommendations go to the Suggested Reading page on the conference website:

https://thebodiesfromthelibrary.wordpress.com/suggested-reading/

Richard Reynolds has suggested a list of books that you can read to get the most out of his presentation on The Oxbridge Murders. For those who want to make the best use of the time available we did notice that Margery Allingham’s Police at the Funeral and Dorothy L. Sayers’ Gaudy Night each feature not only in Richard’s list but also in the list of at least one other speaker.

For a full list of Richard’s suggestions and those of other speakers at the conference go to the Suggested Reading page of the conference website:

https://thebodiesfromthelibrary.wordpress.com/suggested-reading/

For those of you who are looking forward to Dolores Gordon-Smith talking about the works of Freeman Wills Crofts, she has suggested a number of titles for you to read in order to get the most out of her talk. They are listed on the https://thebodiesfromthelibrary.wordpress.com/suggested-reading/ page of our Bodies From The Library conference website.

L.C. Tyler has provided a list of recommended reading for those who want to get the most out of his talk about the new Golden Age at The Bodies From The Library Conference. You can find his recommendations at our website’s Suggested Reading page.

For those of you who are looking forward to hearing Martin Edwards’ talks at The Bodies From The Library Conference on the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, you may want to visit the Suggested Reading page on our site where Martin has listed his recommended novels to get the most out of his presentations.

For those of you who are looking forward to B.A. Pike’s talk at The Bodies From The Library Conference on Golden Age Detective Fiction, he has recommended some books by the two authors as pre-reading to get the most out of his presentation. You can find his recommendations on the Bodies From The Library website at: https://thebodiesfromthelibrary.wordpress.com/suggested-reading/

For those of you who have bought tickets and can’t wait until June to immerse yourself in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction,  Dr John Curran, one of the leading authorities on the genre, has compiled a list of classic Golden Age novels to whet your appetite. You can find the list on the The Bodies From The Library website at https://thebodiesfromthelibrary.wordpress.com/suggested-reading/

We are delighted to learn that a Golden Age Detective Fiction novel is top of the Christmas Bestseller lists. The surprise chart topper is Mystery in White by long-neglected author Joseph Jefferson Farjeon.

We are even more pleased that it is published by the British Library with whom we share an interest in this era and features an excellent introduction by a like-minded modern British crime writer Martin Edwards whose knowledge of this genre is, dare we say it, encyclopaedic.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/thirties-murder-mystery-novel-is-surprise-runaway-christmas-hit-9938088.html