How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson (British Library, £12.99) is for those with groaning shelves of golden-age crime novels. Kate Jackson has plundered the works of Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and others to give tips on how the reader might survive a murder mystery: and what reader hasn't sometimes given that some thought? Red herrings, hidden identities and police interrogations, all the clues are contained within.
And on that subject, GT Karber's Murdle: More Killer Puzzles: 100 Fiendishly Foul Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles will test the wits of the armchair sleuth with a follow-up to the bestselling and addictive 100 Devilishly Devious Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles (both Souvenir Press, £14.99).
Little Toller books are always beautiful – inside and out. Among its recent volumes is by Michael Morpurgo, the diary of a year on Morpurgo's Devon farm. It contains
