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THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE AGATHA CHRISTIE FESTIVAL

To celebrate both the 50th anniversary of the publication of Sleeping Murder and the sheer brilliance of Miss Marple, the Agatha Christie Festival have brought together three equally brilliant women for our celebratory panel event.

Professor Michelle Kazmer, Rachel Trethewey, author of Mothers of the Mind, and Shedunnit podcast host Caroline Crampton will discuss Sleeping Murder, Miss Marple and the role of strong women in crime fiction. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear from these Christie experts and to celebrate not only Miss Marple but the brilliant woman that created her.

This panel event will be recorded for the Shedunnit podcast.

Professor Michelle Kazmer PhD is Dean and Professor of the Florida State University (USA) College of Communication and Information and a lifelong crime fiction fan who became enamoured of Agatha Christie at the age of 12. Her Christie scholarship has been included in edited volumes, conferences, repertory theatre notes, invited lectures, podcasts, radio, and television.

Rachel Trethewey read History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where she won the Philip Geddes Prize for student journalism. During her journalistic career she wrote features for the Daily Mail and Daily Express, and subsequently reviewed history books for The Independent. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and received the Antonia Fraser Grant from the Society of Authors for her previous book Mothers of the Mind (2023). She lives in Devon.

Caroline Crampton is a writer and a podcaster. She is the author of two non-fiction books: The Way to the Sea (2019) and A Body Made of Glass (2024). She is the creator and host of the award-winning detective fiction podcast Shedunnit. She curates articles as editor-in-chief of The Browser, and she writes reviews and essays for publications like Time, Literary Hub and the Guardian.