Next month, the Seagull Amateurs, my local theatre company, is staging a play I wrote! Seeing the cast in character is really special.
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker
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Agatha Christie, queer theory, and offshore wind in one strange mix. I write crime fiction and books about crime fiction. Think of an awkward, once-high-achieving millennial Brit. Hello!
From Little Miss Marple to The Last Death of the Year, read all about this month's Agatha Christie news. The #ChristieCatchUp for October is live! open.substack.com/pub/christie...
The Christie Catch-Up: October/November 2025
A monthly newsletter keeping you up to date on all things Agatha Christie
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We welcome contributions for upcoming issues: 16.1: Open Themed (Deadline: 1 Jan 2026) 16.2: Crime (Deadline: 1 July 2026) 17.1: The State of Publishing (Deadline: 1 Jan 2027) 17.2: The Value of the Humanities (Deadline: 1 July 2027) ow.ly/8rOn50WVFBg @tomue.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com
We are extremely lucky to kick off day two with our amazing keynote! The amazing @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social discussing Golden Age Detective Fiction as War Fiction. 🕵🏻♀️🔪✨ #GoldenAgeDetectiveFiction @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social @carolinederry.bsky.social
DAY ONE 🕵🏻♀️🔪🧶 is underway! ✨ We are so excited for some amazing papers this morning. Are you joing us? What panel are you excited for?! 🕵🏿♀️🔪🧶 @fsucci.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social @michellekazmer.bsky.social @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social
I’m so excited that, in 2 days, we are launching both Silent Echoes, a golden age crime conference and Ten Little Mysteries, a book of new fiction inspired by the Golden Age. Get a sneak preview of the introduction here: jcbernthal.com/2025/09/07/c...
Out today from Crippen & Landru: Double Crossing Van Dine! I'm honoured to have a story in this collection, where each author breaks one of S.S. Van Dine's sacred rules of detective fiction writing. crippen-and-landru.myshopify.com/products/dou...
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DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! As the Golden Age of Mystery began to flourish, the books spread their wings and, in some cases, stretched believability. These authors sometimes shocked the readers, but a...
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Just launched a Substack! The Christie Catch-Up tells you what you might have missed from the world of Agatha Christie each month. I am still finding my feet so please let me know what you think! christiecatchup.substack.com
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A monthly newsletter keeping you up to date on all things Agatha Christie. Click to read The Christie Catch-Up, by J.C. Bernthal, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.
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🗡#CWADaggers And the Short Story Dagger 2024 WINNER is… JC BERNTHAL, for ‘A Date on Yarmouth Pier’ Published in Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Press)
This is fabulous news and very well deserved for Festival Friend, the amazing Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker. Well done Jamie!
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker@jcbernthal.com · last yr.I can't quite believe this, but my first mainstream fiction publication, 'A Date on Yarmouth Pier', has been shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger!!!!!!
I can't quite believe this, but my first mainstream fiction publication, 'A Date on Yarmouth Pier', has been shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger!!!!!!
The Crime Writers' Association@thecwa.bsky.social · last yr.Announcing the shortlist for the 2025 Short Story Dagger!
Issue 15.1 of Book 2.0 is in @intellectbooks.bsky.social! Thx, to my BFF @jcbernthal.com & to our fab contributors, for a great issue! Here's to the next 50.
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To commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, as part of our September Festival, we will have a glamorous VE Day themed ball in the Grand, and talks from @jcbernthal.com and experts from @isokongallery.bsky.social on Agatha Christie's life and work during the war www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...
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Celebrate Agatha Christie in the place of her birth on the English Riviera. Step into the area’s outstanding literary and geological heritage with a six-day fringe followed by a four-day literary fest...
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A few days left to send in your abstracts! See you there?! 🕵🏻♀️🔍✨ @jcbernthal.com @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social @thecwa.bsky.social @crimestudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @middlebrownetwork.bsky.social #CrimeFiction @agathafestival.bsky.social
After launching the very exciting no-longer-secret project, I’m at the theatre. It is funny.
What a fabulous concept! Congratulations to @markaldridge.info @jcbernthal.com @michellekazmer.bsky.social and Gray Robert Brown. All 4 of these brilliant Agathaologists are speaking at this year's Festival in September. We can't wait! #agathachristie
Mark Aldridge@markaldridge.info · last yr.Here we go - two years in the making! #AgathaChristie youtu.be/26Tn5OjMcAM?...
🔍✨EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT✨🔍 We are thrilled to announce our 2025 keynote for Golden Age of Crime, @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social ! @universityofleeds.bsky.social Read more about Prof. Meyer and her fascinating research below👇🏻 ✨Submissions open until 5th May✨
❗We are excited to announce our keynote speaker for 'Silent Echoes: Golden Age Crime Fiction and Trauma', at FSU's London Study Centre in September. Professor Jessica Meyer @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social is an expert on masculinity, war, and popular culture whose work we LOVE. We cannot wait.
This is the most delightful surprise. My short story, ‘A Date on Yarmouth Pier’ (which is sort of about a serial killer and is a bit gay) has been long listed for the CWA Short Story dagger. And what an illustrious list it is, too. ❤️
The Crime Writers' Association@thecwa.bsky.social · last yr.Announcing the longlist for the 2025 CWA Short Story Dagger! Congratulations, authors and good luck in the next round! #CWA_Daggers #Daggers_2025 #booksky
So sorry to hear this news. One of the last of his school of crime writers, consistently brilliant, and just a very nice and supportive person. RIP Peter Lovesey.
Tom Mead@tommeadauthor.bsky.social · last yr.I am heartbroken to hear of the passing of Peter Lovesey. He was among the very finest mystery authors, and a gentleman of unparalleled generosity. One of my most prized possessions is a personalised copy of ABRACADAVER he sent me two years ago when DEATH AND THE CONJUROR came out in the UK.
@jcbernthal.com & I are beavering away at 15.1 of Book 2.0 @intellectbooks.bsky.social, which features reviews of new titles from Oxford UP, @yalepress.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social, Gordon Hill P, & numerous others! Warm thx to our contributors!
You can now get Jessica Brick Investigates as an ebook! Like the physical book, it contains the first 5 comic mystery stories featuring my amateur sleuth Jessica Brick (she models herself on Miss Marple, but isn't very good). www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F3V75GV3/
Looks like another great line up for this year’s @agathafestival.bsky.social! I’m looking forward to my talk, SECRETS AND SPIES: AGATHA CHRISTIE THE WAR WRITER. 😎 www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...
International Agatha Christie Festival | Literary Festival
Celebrate Agatha Christie in the place of her birth on the English Riviera. Step into the area’s outstanding literary and geological heritage with a six-day fringe followed by a four-day literary fest...
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Utterly delighted to finally be able to reveal the new Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution map which I did the research for witnesscountyhall.com
Witness for the Prosecution
Official Box Office. NO BOOKING FEES. IN THE MAGNIFICENT LONDON COUNTY HALL, SOUTHBANK, SE1
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. @jcbernthal.com talks about why #Christie remains so popular @mcfarland.bsky.social 's podcast Best Part of the Bk ($ave 25% on his #AgathaChristie: A Companion to the #Mystery Fiction w/coupon code BESTPART on McF website). I edit the series. buff.ly/8uhh2D2 #detectivefiction #books
What a joy to talk all things Agatha Christie with Mark Perzel for McFarland’s Best Part of the Book podcast. The podcast tells you how to get an exclusive discount on my gargantuan encyclopaedic AGATHA CHRISTIE: A COMPANION TO THE MYSTERY FICTION! bestpartofthebook.alitu.com
So excited to share a call for papers for our next conference, Silent Echoes: Golden Age Crime Fiction and Trauma. It will be held in London in September, at the Florida State University's London Study Centre. jcbernthal.com/2025/03/16/c...
Call For Papers: Golden Age Crime Fiction Conference
Silent Echoes: Golden Age Crime Fiction and Trauma FSU (Florida State University) London Study Centre, 12–13 September 2025 Please note: this in-person conference will take place in London The Gold…
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This is my brilliantly artistic grandmother, who died 10 years ago yesterday. She was born during the Second World War and adopted. In her last years, before a rapid cancer ended things too soon, she tried to find out more about her roots.
