MYSTERIES: They’ve pulled together a team of academics to work out the likely culprits in Agatha Christie books for a TV show. Really? Is this why they spent all that time in Uni?

Agatha Christie

 

 

CLASSICS: The cosy mystery is becoming popular again. Add some crime-busting cats and stick the world ‘Girl’ in the title and you’re onto a winner!

Cosy crime

 

TRUE CRIME: Satanism not witchcraft perhaps? Poor choice of words from a Florida sheriff upsets Wiccans.

Ritual murder

 

HISTORY: Child murder was common in Victorian times

Child murder

 

THE MOB: Real-life inspiration for TV’s Tony Soprano dies

Crime boss

 

TRUE CRIME: Did Sutcliffe kill more than we know?

Yorkshire Ripper

 

BOOKS: A round-up of translated crime

Translations