detection

Haunted by the ghost of Sherlock Holmes

7 November 2026 9:00 am

Both Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Bell – the inspiration for Holmes – would find themselves dogged by the detective long after he had been killed off

Poirot won’t be drawn

No sex, please, in the Detection Club

16 May 2015 9:00 am

‘The crime novel,’ said Bertolt Brecht, ‘like the world itself, is ruled by the English.’ He was thinking of the…