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Penny Billyeald
Penny Billyeald lives in a village near Reading. Her main research interests are Golden Age detective Fiction and the poetry of the First World War.
Courses
A study of the four queens of crime, Sayers, Marsh, Allingham and Christie, all of whom wrote murder mysteries in the Golden Age of crime fiction between the wars and have enduring popularity today.
Why is the city of dreaming spires also the city of murders? Oxford is the setting for more fictional murder mysteries than any other city, featuring amateur and police detectives from Wimsey to Morse and beyond.