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Agatha Christie Festival 2024!

Every year, on the week of Agatha Christie's birthday, a festival is held in Torquay, her birthplace, to celebrate her life and works. There's a great variety of events, centring around talks on Christie-related topics, but also featuring plays, tours, and murder mystery events. This year, I attended it for the first time! I've always been put off by the distance, but it was very much worth making the trip. I started things off by watching the Peter Ustinov Evil Under the Sun for…

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17 September, 2024
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Bodies From the Library 2024, and some London book-hunting

A few days ago, on June 1st, I went to Bodies From the Library for the second time. In case you're not familiar, Bodies From the Library is a conference hosted each year at the British Library, dedicated to classic detective fiction. This year's talks featured live sound effects, an abundance of pierrots and harlequins, enough academic mysteries to fill several blackboards, more Edmund Crispin and historic true-crime facts than would fit in 30 minutes, some Miss Marple myths firmly busted, a few classic…

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3 June, 2024
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Welcome to the blog!

Hello everyone, I'm Velleic, an avid reader of crime fiction, particularly of the Classic, clue-based sort. Over the past few years I've built up a backlog of thoughts and even full reviews of some of the books I've read, and I've decided it's high time to post them. I'm starting with one book from the pre-Golden Age of Mystery and one book from a decade and a half ago, but expect things from the 1930s/1940s soon. Posting schedule-wise, I'm going to try and post…

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1 May, 2023