Using high-res scans, a researcher uncovered scribbled etchings likely made by the British poet and artist while working as a teenage apprentice engraver in the 1770s Julia Binswanger Lizzy ...

Misleadingly renowned for their comedies (realistically only a tenth of the studio’s productions), Ealing Studios conjured ...

And as he tells The Guardian (UK), “I knew from the age of eight that I wanted to be a writer ... appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2014 by the then Prince ...

Classic murder mysteries aren't just by British writers ... Margarey Allingham—another Golden Age mystery writer—introduced her gentlemen sleuth Albert Campion in The Crime at Black Dudley ...

Need a new mystery to start watching now ... Van der Valk reboots the wildly popular series original series, which ran on British television from 1972 to 1992, and was based on author Nicolas ...

By this point in the evolution of crime fiction, British mystery writers and literary critics had become preoccupied with what’s known as “fair play,” a principle whereby writers were ...

With a panel of celebrated authors—Megan Abbott ... satisfying, and influential mystery and thriller books, in chronological order beginning in the 1800s This project is led by Lucy Feldman ...

In 1984, a major fire broke out on the fourth floor of the Jin Xin Building, the residents on the 4th floor were trapped in the fire as the fire exits were blocked, which claimed a total of 19 lives.

As president of the Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers led initiation rites featuring ceremonial garb, flickering candles and ...

She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America.

Murder mystery has many sub-genres ... Then in 1887, a certain writer came along to introduce the world to Sherlock Holmes. Once the game was afoot there, more writers tried their hand at crime ...