Inside The Detective’s Notebook

Monthly briefing for founding members

June has been a great month! I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to speak about my doctoral research into the history of Victorian and Edwardian detectives at the annual Alibis in the Archive event, at Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, North Wales. It was a fantastic experience – the speakers were fascinating, the company was wonderful, and the food delicious. My talk, The Science of Sleuthing, seemed to go down well and I had lots of interested questions from the audience.

Also in June, I released my first book in my new non-fiction historical murder series, The Mysterious Poisoning of Charles Bravo. At the same time as the launch, I published an article about Agatha Christie’s fascination with this unsolved case, in Historia Magazine.

In this month’s briefing, I’ll be sharing my ongoing research into historical detective practice, focusing on communication, including the use of the rather traditional route papers, and the ‘new’ technology of the telegraph. Real-life detectives did not always respond to these changes as you’d expect…

I’ll also be revealing the topic of my next book in The Historical Murder Files series…