Mystery Fest 2024

This year held will be held at the
University of Portsmouth's
Eldon Building.
Portsmouth. PO1 2DP
24th February
10am-5pm.

The Guest of Honour is

Simon Brett

The conference this year has two themes:
What’s in A Name?
and
Getting the Right Title.

The Speakers are:

Jeff Dowson

Graham Donnelly

Nick Everard

Lesley Thomson

Dot Marshall-Gent,

 Peter Tickler

Carol Westron

                    Richard Salsbury and William Sutton 

Two Expert Witnesses
Colin White and Paul Smith
from the University of Portsmouth
will be talking about the role of real
Scene of Crime Officers. (CSI)

 

Carol Westron will moderate a panel about adapting books tofilms or television. Joined by Jeff Dowson who has considerable knowledge in this field with his experience as a screenwriter.Maybe he can throw some light to make sense of some of the thingsthat television screenwriters/producers do to books.

On the theme of ‘What’s in a Name’ Carol will give a short talk on the names chosen by some of the illustrious crime fiction authors of the 20th century followed by a panel discussing the speakers' choices of character names.

As in previous years there will be a bookstall manned by
Hayling Island Books.

Tickets can be purchased online at
https://librariesandarchives.portsmouth.gov.uk