Simon Brett

Simon Brett is the author of over ninety books, most of them crime novels including the Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter, Fethering and Blotto & Twinks series. For radio and television he wrote After Henry and No Commitments. He is a Past President of the Detection Club and in 2014 was awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger for Excellence.

Catherine Cooke

Catherine studied French and German at Bedford College, then Library Studies at the University College, London.  She worked for Westminster Libraries from 1978 to her retirement in 2022.  She was awarded Fellowship in the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in 2006 and won the BIC/cilip RFID Innovation in Libraries Award for 2009.  She was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to libraries in 2020.  Catherine has managed Westminster’s Sherlock Holmes Collection since 1982.  She joined The Sherlock Holmes Society of London in 1980 and has served on Council for many years, including as Chairman.  She was awarded the Arthur Conan Doyle Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award in January 2025.  She is also a long-standing member of The Margery Allingham Society, serving on Committee. 

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. Tom Adams Uncovered: The Art of Agatha Christie, co-authored with the artist Tom Adams, appeared in 2015. In 2019 he published The Hooded Gunman, the official history of Collins Crime Club and last year The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles and the Golden Age. 

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. Her short fiction has been widely published and was awarded the Gothic Fiction prize, and the Sykehouse Filmfest Silken Noose award. She is also the author of the historical crime series, The Charlotte Blood Chronicles. Victoria is the Vice-chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and was a criminal defence barrister.

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

Martin Edwards

Martin Edwards’ most recent novel is Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife; he has published five novels (with a sixth, Fever Island, due in September) 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 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

Tom Mead

Tom Mead is a Derbyshire mystery writer and aficionado of Golden Age Crime Fiction. His novels include Death and the Conjuror, The Murder Wheel, Cabaret Macabre and The House at Devil’s Neck. He also recently published a collection of mystery stories, The Indian Rope Trick (and Other Violent Entertainments). His books have been translated into twelve languages (and counting), nominated for various awards and named books of the year by The Guardian, The Telegraph, Publishers Weekly and Crimereads.

Jim Noy

Jim Noy has a particular enthusiasm for the golden age detection of the 1920 to the 1950s, especially locked room mysteries and impossible crimes. He blogs at The Invisible Event, where he also publishes the infuriatingly occasional In GAD We Trust podcast.

Brian Price

Brian Price is the author of the DC Mel Cotton detective thrillers. The sixth in the series, Fatal Shot, was published last November and a seventh is due this autumn. He also wrote A Pocketful of Poisons, a collection of short stories featuring toxic substances. A chemist and biologist by training, he regularly advises other writers on the scientific aspects of their work, including poisons, knockouts, weapons, body disposal and DNA. He is the author of Crime writing: How to write the science, which covers these topics and more.

https://www.brianpriceauthor.co.uk./ https://www.crimewriterscience.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/brian.price.16100

Jasmine Simeone

Jasmine is the editor of the Dorothy L Sayers Society Bulletin to Members which is issued six times a year. She has held this position since 1995, having been a member of the Society since 1987. She has given talks on many aspects of Dorothy L Sayers’ writing, many of which have been published in the Proceedings and Sidelights of the Society. She was an English and Special Needs teacher for almost 45 years until her retirement.