Janet Laurence’s A Fatal Freedom, published by the Mystery Press, is the second in her Ursula Grandison Edwardian mystery series, and she is now working on the third. She is also the author of the Darina Lisle culinary and Canaletto historical crime series and of Writing Crime Fiction—Making Crime Pay, published by Aber. She regularly runs crime-writing workshops and is currently chair of the CWA International Dagger judging panel.
This summer the British Library held another of its highly successful Bodies from the Library days celebrating the Golden Age of crime fiction. We had papers on Josephine Tey, Ngaio Marsh, and George…