19 May 2018
Panel 12:50 - 13:40
Simon Brett discuses 'Humour in Crime Fiction' with four fellow authors:
Ruth Dudley Edwards has been a
teacher, marketing executive and civil servant and is a prize-winning biographer
as well as an historian, journalist and broadcaster. The targets of her satirical crime novels
include the civil service, gentlemen’s clubs, a Cambridge college, the House of
Lords, the Church of England, publishing, literary prizes and
politically-correct Americans. In 2008 she won the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award
for Murdering Americans. Killingthe Emperors is about conceptual art and won the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award
2013. 
Peter Guttridge is a novelist, critic, writing teacher and an interviewer at many literature festivals and
events. He is a former Director of the Brighton Literature Festival and
the current co-director of Books By The Beach, the Scarborough Book
Festival. (www.booksbythebeach.co.uk). For eleven years he was the
Observer newspaper's crime fiction critic. He is the author of eleven
novels, two works of non-fiction and numerous short stories 
Vaseem Khan was born in
London in 1973. He studied finance at the London School of Economics. He first
saw an elephant lumbering down the middle of the road in 1997 when he arrived
in the city of Mumbai, India to work as a management consultant. This surreal
sight inspired his Baby Ganesh Agency series of 'gritty cosy crime' novels. His
aim with the series is to take readers on a journey to the heart of modern
India. He returned to the UK in 2006 and has since worked at University College
London for the Department of Security and Crime Science. Elephants are third on
his list of passions, first and second being great literature and cricket, not
always in that order. His first book The Unexpected Inheritance
of Inspector Chopra was a Times Bestseller and an Amazon Best Debut. The
second in the series The Perplexing Theft
of The Jewel in The Crown won the 2017 Shamus Award for Best Original
Private Investigator Paperback. His latest book published 3 May
2018 is Murder at the Grand Raj
Palace.
L. C. Tyler was born in Southend,
Essex, and educated at Southend High School for Boys, Jesus College Oxford and
City University London. After university he joined the Civil Service and worked
at the Department of the Environment in London and Hong Kong. He then moved to
the British Council, where his postings included Malaysia, Thailand, Sudan and
Denmark. Since
returning to the UK he has lived in Sussex and London and was Chief Executive
of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health for eleven years. He is
now a full-time writer. His first novel, The
Herring Seller's Apprentice, was published by Macmillan in 2007, followed by A Very Persistent Illusion, Ten Little
Herrings, The Herring in the Library and Herring on the Nile. The first book in a new historical series, A Cruel Necessity, was published by
Constable and Robinson in November 2014. Since then he has published three further
books in this series. The latest being Fire.
His latest Ethelred and Elsie is Herring in the Smoke
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