Parties and post boxes make beguiling settings for this month’s mysteries

TV adaptations have masked the complexity and skill of Agatha Christie

A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel

While away the winter with would-be classics

Not all is grim and gloom in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series

Pass the time by these passages into times present and past: post-war to Covid-era

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s many passions included a view of Empire that would today be regarded as racist

From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not

Which group of non-teachers run the universities: Vice-chancellors or UCU leaders?

As the days quicken and the shadows lengthen, our thoughts turn naturally to murder