Caroline: "Poison book" or "poison register" is a phrase that crops up quite a bit in golden age detective fiction. I'm sure lots of you have come across it in this fictional context, where a character is asked to sign such a volume so
Caroline: Over the almost seven years that I have been making Shedunnit, I have seen over and over again that a really considered and specific book recommendation can be a way of demonstrating care and affection. So many of the lists and suggestions that appear out there in the wider
The stock detective of golden age detective fiction is definitely an amateur. It's someone at the country house party who has the role of sleuth thrust upon them by circumstance, or a person with known criminological interests who has built up a reputation for repeatedly solving crimes simply
