Sarah Martin is a Visiting Lecturer in Crime Fiction at the University of Chester where she recently gained her PhD. She is Co-Director of Golden Age Mysteries ltd., who run the Agatha Christie and Golden Age of Crime conferences, and has published widely on Golden Age Detective Fiction.

Stefano Serafini an EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University and the University of Padua. He is the author of Gothic Italy: Crime, Science and Literature after Unification (University of Toronto Press, 2024) and Italian Crime Fiction Revisited: Authority, Detection, and the Supernatural, 1861-1941 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).