Jake Kerridge and Martin Edwards discuss What and When Was The Golden Age?

B A Pike discusses Dorothy L Sayers and Margery Allingham

Simon Brett and Martin Edwards discuss The Detection Club and its Collaborative Novels

Meanwhile in the foyer…The Barbican Library stand with examples from their Crime Classics collection and the British Library Pop Up Shop.

Richard Reynolds discusses The Oxbridge Murders


Rob Davies (the British Library), Dr John Curran, and David Brawn (Harper Collins) discuss Publishing the Golden Age

Opportunity for the audience to chat over coffee

Tony Medawar explains Howdunnit? Locked Rooms and Impossible Crimes

Dolores Gordon-Smith discusses Tracking Down The Murderer: Freeman Wills Crofts

Dr John Curran discusses Agatha Christie’s Influences

L C Tyler discusses Taking The Golden Age into the 21st Century

Ripe For A Reprint panel explaining their selections.

Bodies From The Library team: Liz Cooper and Susan Cooper