British Lib podcast: The Female Detective.

The British Library has just posted the podcast from the panel that discussed the female detective from the debut of "Miss G" in Andrew Forrester's The Female Detective in 1864. Held in conjunction with the exhibition "Murder in the Library," the event featured Lindsey Davis, Natasha Cooper, The Killing producer Piv Bernth, and former Clues executive editor Margaret Kinsman.

Val McDermid, Lindsey Davis this week on BBC Radio 7.

In the latest in the series Foul Play, which is written and chaired by Simon Brett, authors Lindsey Davis and Val McDermid attempt to solve the mysterious death of a doctor. Go here for the schedule or to listen.

Lindsey Davis, Josephine Tey this week on BBC Radio 7.

This week on BBC Radio 7: Lindsey Davis's Falco, aka "Sam Spade in a toga," appears in Venus in Copper, and Inspector Alan Grant attempts to solve the mystery of the Princes in the Tower from his hospital bed in Josephine Tey's celebrated The Daughter of Time. Go here for the schedule or to listen.

Bloomsbury April 23rd book auction results.

Some highlights from Bloomsbury's April 23rd literature auction:

• First English edition of James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy (1822; novel about a spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary War; Cooper's second novel): valued at £400–600, sold for £1300 (approximately $1900)
  

• First edition of M.R. James's Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), £550 (approximately $809)
  

• First serialized edition of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (1935), valued at £60-80, sold for £360 (approximately $530)
  

• Signed copy of the autobiographical She Goes to War (1942) by Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters), £280 (approximately $412)
  

• Signed first edition of John le Carre's Call for the Dead (1961), £3000 (approximately $4414)
  

• Signed first edition of James Crumley's The Wrong Case (1975), £160 (approximately $235)
  

• First edition of Colin Dexter's The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (1977), £420 (approximately $618)
  

• First edition of Lindsey Davis's The Silver Pigs (1989), £170 (approximately $250)
  

Sadly, the copies of Leslie Charteris's The Saint vs. Scotland Yard and The Saint and Mr. Teal that I mentioned in this post went unsold (as did copies of Chandler's Farewell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye).

Lindsey Davis's Falco this week on BBC Radio 7.

BBC Radio 7 is now broadcasting The Silver Pigs, the first in Lindsey Davis's Marcus Didius Falco series ("Sam Spade in a toga"). Go here for the schedule or to listen.

Lindsey Davis this week on BBC Radio 7.

Lindsey Davis's "Sam Spade in a toga," Marcus Didius Falco, is featured on BBC Radio 7 this week in Shadows in Bronze. Click here for the schedule or to listen.