Month: September 2023

• September 24, 2023

  Malice Aforethought

  Malice Aforethought, the first of three books written by Francis Iles, was published in 1931. It was actually the 9 or 10th novel published by author Anthony Berkeley Cox, praised for his detective Roger Sheringham who first appeared in the 1925 novel The Layton Court Mystery.  As a fan of Berkeley Cox, and his cutting…
• September 10, 2023

  Reading suicide in Agatha Christie – part one

  Below is the introduction from my MA dissertation, titled Justice, despair or plot; reading suicide in the novels of Agatha Christie, submitted in 2022 as part of Medical Humanities at Birkbeck. When one looks at collected thematic works of Agatha Christie, for example the upcoming Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, similar themes emerge: the impact…