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Agatha Christie photo exhibition

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Fans of the Golden Age, Poirot and Marple – note the date 26 August in your diary. No, they haven’t dug up a nearly finished early manuscript by the great Agatha Christie to publish anew, but they have found a treasure trove of photos of the…
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The BritCrime Festival

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Mark the dates 11-13 July in your diary if you love reading crime and hanging out online. A band of 41 (yes, forty-one precisely) British crime authors  are holding the festival under the title BritCrime. Some of the names include Mason Cross, Alex Marwood, Mark…
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Canada's Arthur Ellis Awards 2015

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A few days ago at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto, Canada celebrated its finest crime authors with the annual Arthur Ellis Awards. It’s a set of gongs given out by The Crime Writers of Canada and is named after the pseudonym used by…
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Hunted by Paul Finch

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A former copper, journalist and screenwriter for The Bill, Paul Finch has had Kindles and Kobos buzzing with his DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg series. Stalkers, the first Heck book, boasts over 180,000 ebook sales so far. The second, Sacrifice, set records for pre-orders. Hunted is the fifth…
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Kobo Emerging Writer Awards for mystery

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Though it doesn’t have the muscle of Amazon, the Canadian company Kobo – which sells its digital ereaders as an alternative to the Kindle – is doing all it can to support crime writers in the Great White North. This year it launches the inaugural Kobo…
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