Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 24/10/2025Next month, the Seagull Amateurs, my local theatre company, is staging a play I wrote! Seeing the cast in character is really special. 051
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 23/10/2025From 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...open.substack.comThe Christie Catch-Up: October/November 2025A monthly newsletter keeping you up to date on all things Agatha Christie 120
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerIntellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2025We 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 034
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerGolden Age Mysteries Ltd. @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social · 13/09/2025We 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 196
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerGolden Age Mysteries Ltd. @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social · 12/09/2025DAY 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 075
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 10/09/2025I’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... 041
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 01/09/2025Extremely excited to see this come together. It’s a great and timely issue! 030
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 31/08/2025The Christie Catch-Up: August/September 2025 open.substack.com/pub/christie...open.substack.comThe Christie Catch-Up: August/September 2025A monthly newsletter keeping you up to date on all things Agatha Christie 163
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 19/08/2025Out 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...crippen-and-landru.myshopify.comDouble Crossing Van DineDON’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... 030
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 28/07/2025Just 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.comchristiecatchup.substack.comThe Christie Catch-Up | J.C. Bernthal | SubstackA 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. 162
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerThe Crime Writers' Association @thecwa.bsky.social · 03/07/2025🗡#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) 292
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerAgatha Christie Festival @agathafestival.bsky.social · 03/06/2025This is fabulous news and very well deserved for Festival Friend, the amazing Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker. Well done Jamie! 0112
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 02/06/2025I 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!!!!!! 2191
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerTom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Issue 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.media.tenor.coma book is open to a page that says ' i 'm sorry 'ALT: a book is open to a page that says ' i 'm sorry ' 043
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerAgatha Christie Festival @agathafestival.bsky.social · 05/05/2025To 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...iacf-uk.orgInternational Agatha Christie Festival | Literary FestivalCelebrate 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... 092
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerGolden Age Mysteries Ltd. @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social · 03/05/2025A 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 025
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 30/04/2025After launching the very exciting no-longer-secret project, I’m at the theatre. It is funny. 030
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerAgatha Christie Festival @agathafestival.bsky.social · 30/04/2025What 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 073
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerGolden Age Mysteries Ltd. @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social · 22/04/2025🔍✨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✨ 025
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 21/04/2025❗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. 143
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 16/04/2025This 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. ❤️ 380
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 10/04/2025So 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. 032
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerTom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · 09/04/2025@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! 032
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 06/04/2025You 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/ 030
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 24/03/2025Looks 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...iacf-uk.orgInternational Agatha Christie Festival | Literary FestivalCelebrate 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... 063
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerTina Hodgkinson @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Utterly delighted to finally be able to reveal the new Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution map which I did the research for witnesscountyhall.comwitnesscountyhall.comWitness for the ProsecutionOfficial Box Office. NO BOOKING FEES. IN THE MAGNIFICENT LONDON COUNTY HALL, SOUTHBANK, SE1 075
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerElizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 17/03/2025. @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 072
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 17/03/2025What 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 182
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 16/03/2025So 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...jcbernthal.comCall For Papers: Golden Age Crime Fiction ConferenceSilent 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… 0117
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 14/03/2025This 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. 270
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 11/03/2025I interviewed Lucy Foley in 2020, discussing her breakout novel The Hunting Party, which is proudly Agatha Christie-inspired and successfully contemporary. 140
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 11/03/2025Miss Marple is getting a new novel outing from Lucy Foley! www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...thebookseller.comHarperCollins signs Lucy Foley's Miss Marple novelHarperCollins and Agatha Christie Limited has tabbed Lucy Foley to write the first full-length continuation of Christie’s iconic sleuth. 061
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 09/03/2025Fans and scholars of Josephine Tey ‼️ I’d be interested in your take on this new Radio 4 adaptation of Brat Farrar. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...bbc.co.ukBBC Sounds - Brat Farrar - Available EpisodesListen to the latest episodes of Brat Farrar on BBC Sounds. 030
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerElizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 09/03/2025On @mcfarland.bsky.social 's podcast Best Part of the Bk on 14 Mar, @jcbernthal.com , author of #AgathaChristie: A Companion to the #Mystery Fiction, will discuss Christie's life, work & popularity (I edit the bk series) mcfarlandbooks.com/our-story/be... #detectivefiction #nonfiction #books 043
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerIntellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · 09/03/2025On this episode of In Conversation, James Campbell is joined by Tom Ue and Jamie Bernthal, the new co-editors of Book 2.0 They discuss the journal, its aims and scopes, the intended audience and future plans for the journal. Watch the full episode here 👉youtu.be/065Ya6jaTjA @tomue.bsky.social 041
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 08/03/2025“What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected.” For #InternationalWomensDay, the @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social gang and I are reading Dorothy L. Sayers’ ‘Are Women Human?’ A sometime witty, mostly exasperated reply to very silly attitudes in 1938, which still persist. 092
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 06/03/2025On the wafer-thin chance you’re following me for insights into offshore wind, I’ve started hosting this podcast for TGS. Our first episode talks about the US and German elections and what they mean for offshore wind. 🍃⚡️🎧 hubs.ly/Q03924Qv0hubs.lyPolitical Impacts on Offshore WindExplore the impact of political changes on offshore wind markets in Germany and the U.S., highlighting challenges, future developments, and opportunities for growth and innovation. 140
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 05/03/2025Finally seen #TowardsZero. It’s good. I will never truly appreciate this promotional image but was pleasantly surprised more than once. It was very nice to see Burgh Island. 251
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 04/03/2025I love amateur dramatics - supporting and taking part. Did a show over the weekend (I played a murderer!) and rehearsing the next one tonight. A nice way to build community and confidence, share culture, and escape into a microcosm where everything is simultaneously too serious and too unserious. 070
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 02/03/2025Looking forward to the BBC’s #TowardsZero starting tonight. The 1944 novel is an astonishing triumph that does everything edgy authors of psychological thrillers did 20 years later, interwoven with a supremely classical puzzle. These aren’t separate elements but enhance one another. 2111
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 28/02/2025How do I entertain myself? By attempting elderly crosswords, it seems. This 'Crime and Detection'-themed trivia crossword appeared in The Times in December 1938 and very Golden Age-y. 0121
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 27/02/2025The latest issue of Book 2.0 is out from Intellect! Mick Gower crowns his 15 years of editorship with a triumphant double issue. I’m proud to feature in this very special issue — reviewing Carolyn Dever’s edition of the diary of Michael Field. intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...intellectdiscover.comVolume 14, Issue 1-2 | IntellectIntellect Discover is the platform where Intellect's content lives: Browse publications for scholars and practitioners teaching and researching in the arts, media and creative industries. 010
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerSarah Martin @aspaceofonesown.bsky.social · 10/02/2025It’s that time of year again, folks!!!! It’s exciting!!! 📚🔎✨ @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social @jcbernthal.com @stefanoserafini.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social @verbivorial.bsky.social @markaldridge.info @agathafestival.bsky.social 177
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerGolden Age Mysteries Ltd. @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social · 08/02/2025We’re so proud to announce that one of our directors Dr Stefano Serafini’s second monograph ‘Italian Crime Fiction Revisited: Authority, Detection, and the Supernatural, 1861–1941’ is out now! 📚🔎 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CrimeFiction #ItallianCrimeFiction #GoldenAge #History #Detection 074
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerDr Andrea Smith @audioandrea.bsky.social · 21/01/2025And as I say, please do sign the petition: www.change.org/p/save-audio...change.orgSign the PetitionSave Audio Drama at the BBC 164
Reposted by Jamie Bernthal-HookerDr Andrea Smith @audioandrea.bsky.social · 21/01/2025"The BBC is wrong to axe drama on Radio 3 – here’s why it matters" My piece for @thestage.bsky.social on the importance (past & present) of BBC Radio 3 drama: edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/21/a... #RadioDrama @writersguildgb.bsky.social @equityuk.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.socialedition.thestage.co.ukAndrea Smith: The BBC is wrong to axe drama on Radio 3 – here’s why it mattersRadio drama has been at the heart of the BBC since it began broadcasting in November 1922. The first play written for children was aired… 22619
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 17/01/2025Recorded two podcasts this week on wildly different topics. Feeling like a renaissance man. (Actually, I’m feeling like a coffee.) 040
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 16/01/2025Subtle Agatha Christie reference! 🐁 🐁 🐁 #TheTraitors 020
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com · 16/01/2025Wait, I have a theory. What if they were trying to banish Linda this whole time and we just didn’t notice because of the spelling? #TheTraitors 120