I recently traveling around the British Isles, so I thought I'd take a look at my favorite time period from an Irish perspective. In the U.S., the Jazz Age is generally defined as the period from 1920 to the early 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The "Jazz Age" in […]

A Belgian detective, a soldier recovering from duty on the Western front, and a Scotland Yard detective walk into a country manor . . . It doesn’t take a genius to recognize the beginning of an Agatha Christie mystery. It is, in fact, Christie’s first mystery, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written during World War […]