Seaside holidays evolved in the 1920s with clothes becoming skimpier and holidaymakers looking for new types of entertainment...

Earlier this year, I took part in an author panel with fellow crime writers T A Williams and Debbie Young to talk about writing cosy crime. Here are some of my answers to the questions we discussed.

Percy Baverstock is a favourite character from Death at Crookham Hall, so when I was invited to enjoy a cocktail with one of my characters, he was the perfect choice. We meet Percy at the Tequila Mockingbird Cocktail Bar...

100 years on, mystery still surrounds the death of Mabel Greenwood from alleged arsenic poisoning in 1919...

Poison was a popular method of committing murder in 1920s and 1930s crime fiction. These are the decades considered to be the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and cyanide, arsenic and strychnine were in plentiful supply in the novels of this period...

Cryptic ads for abortion pills, claiming to quickly 'correct all irregularities' and 'remove all obstructions' were commonplace in newspapers during the early part of the twentieth century...

In my novel, Death at Crookham Hall, a murder takes place in 1920 in the real-life location of the Basingstoke Canal as it runs through Crookham. When I wrote this book, I had no idea that a tragic murder had taken place there in 1925…

In 1909, four suffragettes chained themselves to statues in the Palace of Westminster to protest against a law banning disorderly conduct inside the Palace while Parliament was in session...

Despite significant reforms in 1918 and 1919, the fight for equal representation was far from over, and this was certainly true when it came to women serving as jurors...

Inspiration for Death at Crookham Hall struck in 2018 in the Houses of Parliament at the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918. Despite the Act, a third of women still couldn't vote, and the fight for equality was far from over...