John Curran

Dr John Curran acted as consultant to the National Trust during the renovation of Agatha Christie’s former home, Greenway House. His Edgar-nominated Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks (2009) won the 2011 Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Awards and he published Agatha Christie’s Murder in the Making, also nominated for the same awards, in September 2011. He completed his PhD, on The Golden Age of Detection, at Trinity College, Dublin where he lives. His most recent publication, Tom Adams Uncovered: The Art of Agatha Christie, was co-authored with the artist Tom Adams who painted over a hundred Christie book covers

Victoria Dowd

Victoria is the award-winning author of the Smart Woman’s Mystery series and has been shortlisted for the CWA Dagger. Her novel, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder, won The People’s Book Prize for fiction and was In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel’s Book of the Year. Her novel Murder Most Cold won the Grand Puzzly award. Victoria was also awarded the Gothic Fiction prize for her short fiction. Her historical crime novel, Death in the Aviary, will be published in September 2025, and is the first book in her new series, The Blood Chronicles. Victoria is head of the London Crime Writers’ Association and was a criminal defence barrister for many years on the London circuit appearing at the Old Bailey.

https://victoriadowd.com/adapting-agatha/

Martin Edwards

Martin Edwards has published four novels (most recently Sepulchre Street) set in the 1930s and featuring Rachel Savernake, as well as series based in the Lake District and Liverpool. He has won two Edgar awards and other honours include lifetime achievement awards for fiction (the CWA Diamond Dagger and the Dagger in the Library), scholarship (the Popular Culture Association’s George N. Dove award), non-fiction (the Poirot award) and short fiction (the Golden Derringer). He is President of the Detection Club and consultant to the bestselling British Library Crime Classics.

http://www.martinedwardsbooks.com
http://www.doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.com/

Ronaldo Fagarazzi

Ronaldo has been an avid reader and collector of Golden Age crime fiction for over 30 years. As a professional in TV and film lighting he has specialised in discovering and cataloguing early adaptations of classic crime. He regularly blogs reviews, research and analysis at:

https://witnesstothecrime.wordpress.com/

Twitter: @REFaust1

Kate Jackson

Kate Jackson has been hooked on crime, (well the reading of), since university and shares her thoughts on the topic at her blog, www.crossexaminingcrime.com, as well as in CADs magazine. She is a CWA member and compiler of the puzzles in The Pocket Detective and The Pocket Detective 2. She also contributed to the publication: The 100 Greatest Literary Detectives (2018), ed. by Eric Sandberg, writing on Juanita Sheridan’s Lily Wu. Her latest publication with the British Library is How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel (2023).

Jake Kerridge

Jake Kerridge has been the crime fiction critic of the Daily Telegraph since 2005. He is an enthusiastic promoter of the best crime fiction of the past as well as the present, both in print and at literary events.

Tony Medawar

Tony Medawar has written extensively on the Golden Age of murder for CADS (Crime and Detective Stories), The Armchair Detective, (Give Me That) Old-Time Detection and other magazines. As well as some short stories – including more than 20 Sherlock Holmes adventures for the popular board game 221B Baker Street – he has compiled or edited numerous collections of “lost” work by various writers of crime and detective fiction. These include collections of previously uncollected and unpublished short stories by Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, Reginald Hill, Ruth Rendell. He edits the successful Bodies from the Library series of “lost” stories and plays which has now reached volume 5 with volume 6 coming imminently. As well as a second volume in the parallel Ghosts from the Library series, he is currently working on new collections of stories by Anthony Berkeley, Christianna Brand and Ethel Lina White.

Chrissie Poulson

Before Christine Poulson turned to crime, she was an academic with a PhD in History of Art. Her Cassandra James mysteries are set in Cambridge in the UK. Deep Water, the first in a new series featuring scientist Katie Flanagan, appeared in 2016 and the second, Cold, Cold Heart, set in Antarctica, in 2018. The third, An Air That Kills, came out in 2019. Her short stories have been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Crime Writers Association anthologies, and the Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries. They have been short-listed for the Short Mystery Fiction Derringer, the Margery Allingham Prize, and the CWA Short Story Dagger.

Moira Redmond

Moira Redmond is a journalist and writer with a long-held interest in Golden Age crime fiction. After a career working with the BBC and other radio outlets, the online magazine Slate, and the Guardian, and writing a book on etiquette, she now concentrates on blogging as Clothes in Books. She contributed a chapter to the recent Edgar-nominated book Murder in the Closet, edited by Curtis Evans, on gay themes in GA crime fiction.

L C Tyler

L C Tyler is a former chair of the CWA and the author of two detective series. He has won the CWA Short Story Dagger, the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award (twice) and been shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Awards and the CWA Historical Dagger. His latest book (2024) is The Three Deaths of Justice Godfrey. http://www.lctyler.com

Gary Wigglesworth

Gary Wigglesworth is the Sales and Marketing Manager for British Library Publishing, he is responsible for ensuring the world knows about (and is able to purchase) the renowned and hugely successful British Library Crime Classic series. In his spare time he is a quiz writer and host: The Book Lover’s Quiz Books 1 & 2 are available now, The Movie Lover’s Quiz Book follows in September. He hosts a monthly book quiz in central London and takes his quiz to various book festivals around the country.