CrimeFest 2024: Between the Wars: Crime Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s.

  Sunday, 12 May
10:40 - 11:30

The Panel are Jane Adams, Dolores Gordon-Smith,
T.E. Kinsey, Ada Moncrieff,
and the participating Moderator is Kate Ellis.

Jane Adams is an accidental crime writer, now author of almost fifty novels across several series. They range from historical with Henry Johnstone, set between the two World Wars. Procedural, in company of DI Mike Croft, cosy with Rina Martin and all points in between. She is currently published by Severn House and Joffe Books and reads and mentors for The Literary Consultancy. When not playing with words she likes to garden, paint and draw. 

www.janeadamsauthor.com 

Dolores Gordon-Smith lives in Greater Manchester and is the author of the Jack Haldean series set in 1920’s England, Serpent’s Eye, How to write a Classic Murder Mystery and two WW1 spy stories. Married with five daughters, a growing number of grandchildren and various dogs and cats, Dolores has been a teacher, a factory worker and the front end of a cow in a pantomime.  

www.doloresgordon-smith.co.uk  

T.E. Kinsey (Tim) was born in the 1960s. He grew up in London in the 1970s and went to university in Bristol in the 1980s. He worked in magazines in the 1990s, and for IMDb in the 2000s. He still lives near Bristol. He’s responsible for the popular Edwardian cosy series The Lady Hardcastle Mysteries and the forthcoming Fanshaw & Foster series set in the 1970s (both Thomas & Mercer).  

www.tekinsey.uk 

Ada Moncrieff was born in London and has lived in Madrid and Paris. She studied English at Cambridge University, and has worked in theatre, publishing and as a teacher. She is the author of Murder Most Festive, Murder at the Theatre Royale and Murder at Maybridge Castle. She now lives and works in London. 

Kate Ellis was born in Liverpool and she is the author of an acclaimed trilogy set in the aftermath of WW1 as well as a, recently reissued, spooky detective series featuring DI Joe Plantagenet. She is, however, best known for her novels that blend mystery with history and feature archaeology graduate DI Wesley Peterson. Her latest in this series is The Killing Place. She was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library in 2019.  

www.kateellis.co.uk