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Golden Age Mysteries Ltd. @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social · Sep 13

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

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Golden Age Mysteries Ltd. @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social · Sep 12

DAY ONE 🕵🏻‍♀️🔪🧶 is underway! ✨

We are so excited for some amazing papers this morning. Are you joing us? What panel are you excited for?!

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@fsucci.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social @michellekazmer.bsky.social @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Sep 10

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...

A green background with gold patterns including a stylised woman’s face, atop logos for Golden Age Mysteries Ltd, FSU College of Communication and Information, and The Golden Age of Crime. Text below reads: ‘Silent Echoes: Golden Age Crime Fiction and Trauma, FSU (Florida State University) London Study Centre, 12-13 September 2025’

Red, white, and cream book cover for Ten Little Mysteries by Golden Age Mysteries Ltd

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Sep 1

Extremely excited to see this come together. It’s a great and timely issue!

Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · Sep 1

First proofs are here for Book 2.0 @intellectbooks.bsky.social! Congrats to my partner @jcbernthal.com & our team!

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Sep 1

Thank *you* for writing Agatha Christie’s London and for being such a positive part of our community

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Aug 31

The Christie Catch-Up: August/September 2025 open.substack.com/pub/christie...

The Christie Catch-Up: August/September 2025

A monthly newsletter keeping you up to date on all things Agatha Christie

open.substack.com

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Aug 19

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.

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Double Crossing Van Dine

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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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Jul 28

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

The Christie Catch-Up | J.C. Bernthal | Substack

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.

christiecatchup.substack.com

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Jul 4

Thank you so much!

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The Crime Writers' Association @thecwa.bsky.social · Jul 3

🗡#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)

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Jul 3

Thank you very much!

Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Jul 3

Thank you so much!

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Agatha Christie Festival @agathafestival.bsky.social · Jun 3

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 · Jun 2

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 · May 29

Announcing the shortlist for the 2025 Short Story Dagger!

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Jun 3

Thank you so much!

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Jun 2

Thank you, Tina x

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Jun 2

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 · May 29

Announcing the shortlist for the 2025 Short Story Dagger!

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Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · May 18

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.

a book is open to a page that says ' i 'm sorry '

ALT: a book is open to a page that says ' i 'm sorry '

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · May 9

Blessings, your holiness, from Pope Chocolate-Covered-Cranberry V

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Agatha Christie Festival @agathafestival.bsky.social · May 5

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...

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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Golden Age Mysteries Ltd. @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social · May 3

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

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Apr 30

After launching the very exciting no-longer-secret project, I’m at the theatre. It is funny.

Theatre programme for The Comedy About Spies held in front of a stage.

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Agatha Christie Festival @agathafestival.bsky.social · Apr 30

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 · Apr 30

Here we go - two years in the making! #AgathaChristie youtu.be/26Tn5OjMcAM?...

How The Agatha Christie Course Was Made | BBC Maestro

YouTube video by BBC Maestro

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Golden Age Mysteries Ltd. @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social · Apr 22

🔍✨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✨

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Apr 21

There's still time to submit your paper proposal, too! We are looking for 20-minute papers. Submissions close 5 May. jcbernthal.com/2025/03/16/c...

Call For Papers: Golden Age Crime Fiction Conference

Silent Echoes: Golden Age Crime Fiction and Trauma Florida State University London Study Centre, 12–13 September 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds) Please note: thi…

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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · Apr 21

❗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.

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