Academic BOOKS & EDITED VOLUMES
Book 2.0
Edited, with Tom Ue, from volume 15 (2025) onwards
A Golden Age of Golden Age Studies?
Edited, with Sarah Martin and Stefano Serafini (Newberry College, 2023)
A special issue of the journal Studies in Crime Writing. Read for free at the link above.
THE BLOOMSBURY HANDBOOK TO AGATHA CHRISTIE
Edited, with Mary Anna Evans (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Shortlisted: Agatha Award, Edgar Award, H.R.F. Keating Award, Macavity Prize. Review by Kate Jackson for Cross-Examining Crime.
AGATHA CHRISTIE: A COMPANION TO THE MYSTERY FICTION
Sole-authored (McFarland, 2022)
Part of the series McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction, edited by Elizabeth Foxwell.
AGATHA CHRISTIE GOES TO WAR
Edited, with Rebecca Mills (Routledge, 2019)
Part of the series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature. Review by Marty S. Knepper for Clues: A Journal of Detection.
Queering Agatha Christie
Sole-authored (Palgrave, 2016)
Part of the series Crime Files. Shortlisted for the H.R.F. Keating Award. Review by Alice Von Rothkirch for Modern Language Review.
The AGeless Agatha Christie
Edited (McFarland, 2016)
The first academic edited collection on Christie in English. Review by Kate Jackson for Cross-Examining Crime.
Selected Fiction
‘Confess Your Secret!’
Short story in Double Crossing Van Dine (ed.s Donna Andrews, Greg Herren, and Art Taylor, Crippen & Landru, 2025)
TEN LITTLE MYSTERIES
Anthology edited and published as Golden Age Mysteries Limited (2025)
Contains ten contributions, including my story, ‘The Body in the Bathtub’.
‘A Date on Yarmouth Pier’
Short story in Midsummer Mysteries (ed. Martin Edwards, Flame Tree Press, 2024). All contributors are members of the Crime Writers’ Association, competitively selected.
Winner: CWA Short Story Dagger.
Spotlight on Jessica Brick
Short story collection (2020)
Contains the following stories: ‘Corpsing’, ‘And Then There Were Nuns’, ‘The Six Deaths of Excalibur Braile’, ‘Dead in the Water’ and the play-script ‘Clue-Don’t’.
Jessica Brick Investigates
Short story collection (2018)
Contains the following stories: ‘A Fete Worse Than Death’, ‘Cyanide on the Side’, ‘Dead Fan’s Folly’, ‘Charity Ends’, ‘Murder on the Cards’, and a bonus, ‘The Corpse Danced at Quarter to Twelve’.
KILLING SHERLOCK
One-act play first performed in workshop by Red Herring Theatre Company in 2021.
A comedy about Sherlock Holmes. For performance or script enquiries, please use the ‘contact’ page above.
CLUE-DON’T
Two-act play. First staged in workshop by Red Herring Theatre Company in 2020. First full production by the Seagull Theatre, 2025.
A comedy mystery featuring Jessica Brick and Achille Pierrot. For performance or script enquiries, please use the ‘contact’ page above.
Articles & Chapters
“Starkly Swamped in Improbabilities”: The Heterotopic Closed Community in Rufus King’s Murder by Latitude
In Stefano Serafini & Sarah Martin (ed.s), Re-Reading Golden Age Crime Fiction: Place, Space, and Time (Routledge, 2026)
A GREAT AND SUDDEN CHANGE?
With Tom Ue, Book 2.0 (15.1, 2025)
On Reading On Close Reading
Review essay. Book 2.0 (15.1, 2025)
One Soul We Divided
Review essay. Book 2.0 (14.1, 2024)
Teaching Crime Fiction as Creative Writing
Clues: A Journal of Detection (42.1, 2023). Forum curation and introduction.
A Tale of Two Arthurs
The Magic Door (23.1, 2023).
Christie and the Carnage of War
In Mary Anna Evans & J.C. Bernthal (ed.s), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie (Bloomsbury, 2022). Multiple award nominee (see above).
Christie and Christianity
In Mary Anna Evans & J.C. Bernthal (ed.s), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie (Bloomsbury, 2022). Multiple award nominee (see above).
Queer Clues to Christie
In Mary Anna Evans & J.C. Bernthal (ed.s), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie (Bloomsbury, 2022). Multiple award nominee (see above).
Reimagining the “Queen of Crime”: An Interview on Modern Adaptations and Visions of Agatha Christie
Exclamat!on (6, 2022). Interview by Sophie Smith, also featuring Mark Aldrige and Sarah Martin.
”A Look of Doglike Devotion”: Hercule Poirot’s Stooges and Foils
In Lucy Andrew and Samuel Saunders (ed.s), The Detective’s Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks (Palgrave, 2021).
“There are Some Perversities that Cannot Stand”: Masculinity, Nostalgia, and the Continuation Novel
Crime Fiction Studies (1.1, 2020).
Self-Referentiality and Metafiction
In Janice Allen, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, and Andrew Pepper (ed.s), The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (Routledge, 2020).
“‘When She Eats, She Will Die”: Informal Meals and Social Change in Sad Cypress and And Then There Were None
In Rebecca Mills and J.C. Bernthal (ed.s), Agatha Christie Goes to War (Routledge, 2019).
Killing Innocence: Obstructions of Justice in Late Interwar British Crime Fiction
Clues: A Journal of Detection (37.2, 2019).
Taking Dorothy L. Sayers Seriously
Clues: A Journal of Detection (36.1, 2018). Review essay.
Detective Fiction: Resolutions without Solutions
In Dougal McNeill and Charles Ferrell (ed.s), British Literature in Transition, 1900-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
“A Dangerous World”: The Eschatology of Agatha Christie’s Later Novels
In Caroline Blythe (ed.), Murderous Texts: The Bible and Crime Fiction (T&T Clark, 2018).
Inspector Alan Grant
In Eric Sandberg (ed.), 100 Greatest Literary Detectives: An International Compendium (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
Crime Fiction as World Literature
English: The Journal of the English Association (2017). Review essay.
“Less Beautiful in Daylight”: Josephine Tey and the Anxiety of Gender
In Curtis Evans (ed.), Murder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall (McFarland, 2017). Edgar Award nominee.
“And For a Knife We Shall Use the Great Sword”: Uncanny Cutlery and its Absence in the Fiction of Roald Dahl
FEAST: A Journal (1.1, 2016).
“The Sumptuous and the alluring”: Hercule Poirot’s Women, Dragged Up and Dressed Down
In J.C. Bernthal (ed.), Agatha Christie: Essays on the Mysteries and the Legacy (McFarland, 2016).
“Talent Enough in His Profession”: The Maladroit DEtective
In Barry Forshaw (ed.), Crime Uncovered: Detective (Intellect, 2016).
“If Not Yourself, Who Would You Be?” Writing the Female Body in Agatha Christie’s Second World War Detective Fiction
Women: A Cultural Review (26.1-2, 2015).
“Every Healthy Englishman Longed to Kick Him”: Masculinity and Nationalism in Agatha Christie’s Cards on the Table.
Clues: A Journal of Detection (32.2, 2014).
Seventy Years of The Body in the Library
CADS: Crime and Detective Stories (61, 2012).
Nobody Ever Sees Harlequin
In Peter Blair (ed.), It’s About Time (University of Chester, 2009).
Editorial Board Membership
Book 2.0
Intellect
Co-Editor-in-Chief (with Tom Ue)
Literature Compass
Wiley
Section Editor, Contemporary: Other Voices, Other Data
Clues: A Journal of Detection
McFarland
Board Member
FORMER EDITORIAL BOARD POSITIONS
Crime Fiction Studies (Edinburgh University Press) – Reviews Editor
JC Bernthal 