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The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett

By Erin Britton

3 September, 2026

As the Fairway Players continue to prove in Janice Hallett’s sequel to The Appeal, amateur dramatics and murder are a perfect double act. Put a group of ambitious performers in a village hall, add a few bruised egos, romantic complications and questionable life choices, and…

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The Magic-Lantern Murders by Carter Dickson

By Erin Britton

27 August, 2026

There are few writers more closely associated with the impossible crime than John Dickson Carr. Writing as Carter Dickson, he introduced Sir Henry Merrivale, one of the Golden Age’s most unconventional detectives, a man capable of turning even the most bewildering murder into an opportunity…

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A Fatal Legacy by Charlotte Vassell

By Erin Britton

25 August, 2026

All is not well at the Horatio Combe Institute in Priory Square, Camden, London. And it’s not just the mokomokai who are looking peaky. Owner/operator Digby Coombe-Watson – descendent of notorious colonial pilferer Horatio Coombe – has been murdered. And on a rug rumoured to…

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She Walks at Night by Seishi Yokomizo

By Erin Britton

10 June, 2026

Translated by Jesse Kirkwood — She Walks at Night by Seishi Yokomizo (1902-1981) is a wonderfully strange blend of Golden Age puzzle mystery, Gothic melodrama and distinctly Japanese atmosphere. Originally published as Woman Walking at Night in Japan, in 1948, it’s another perplexing case for…

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A Classic Revisited: The Unicorn Murders by Carter Dickson

By Erin Britton

21 May, 2026

If a man is found stabbed through the forehead by a unicorn, the sensible reaction is probably to question the witness, the lighting conditions and perhaps the sanity of everyone involved. But in The Unicorn Murders that bizarre image is simply the starting point for…

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The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery

By Erin Britton

12 March, 2026

A historical locked-room mystery that balances homage with invention, The Murder at World’s End is Ross Montgomery’s debut adult novel. Set in the autumn of 1910 on a windswept island off the Cornish coast, it is both a complex puzzle mystery and a vivid evocation…

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Murder at Mistletoe Manor by FL Everett

By Erin Britton

11 November, 2025

FL Everett’s Murder at Mistletoe Manor is a snowbound murder mystery that manages to be genuinely festive and genuinely chilling. A closed-circle whodunnit, it pays homage to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and other Golden Age mysteries, but it does so with a…

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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

By Erin Britton

18 September, 2025

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife is a twist-filled murder mystery that blends classic crime fiction tropes with a modern, interactive narrative structure. With a hefty dose of festive flair, Martin Edwards pays homage to Golden Age detective stories while simultaneously deconstructing them…

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The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett

The Magic-Lantern Murders by Carter Dickson

A Fatal Legacy by Charlotte Vassell

She Walks at Night by Seishi Yokomizo

A Classic Revisited: The Unicorn Murders by Carter Dickson

The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery

Murder at Mistletoe Manor by FL Everett

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

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