There’s a reason why Agatha Christie’s books are the best-selling books after the Bible and Shakespeare. Her character creation has made two of the most well-known detectives in the world: Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Although I was introduced to Poirot early on, it was only by sheer accident that I ended up reading my …
I grew up reading Agatha Christie and watching all the different versions of her stories made to film, but although I’d heard of Dorothy L Sayers, I’m afraid I didn’t get around to reading her books until a beta reader of my book, The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Taker, remarked that my writing style …
In my book, The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Taker, I’ve attempted to keep the language in dialogue and exposition as close to terms and phrases used in 1901 as possible. I love studying the etymology of words, and one of the things I discovered was how many terms we use in the mystery genre, …
