10/06/2026
Have you visited Scarthin Books? It’s to die for!! Like what we did there! 🙊
If you are planning on visiting this wonderful family-owned bookshop and need somewhere to stay in delightful Derbyshire… look us up!
Our boutique hotel is family-owned and our beautiful English country garden could easily take on a lead role in a regency drama!
Scarthin Books is also family owned and just a five minute walk from us. Call at Taylor-Wilde Chocolatier on your way down! Have a cheeky glass of wine at Robert’s Wine Bar or enjoy a pint at The Boat Inn. Wander down to Cromford Mills to learn all about our history and feed the ducks along Cromford canal. Some Might Say Oasis that our village has a fabulous train station! 🚂
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Only a week to go until our classic crime event.
Let's tickle you in the meantime with our Literary Crime Quiz
1/6. On which day of the week do a ‘Murder Club’ meet at the Cooper's Chase retirement village in Kent?
2/6. Who is murdered in T S Eliot’s 1935 play ‘Murder in the Cathedral’, and in which Cathedral?
3/6. In whose books does a detective named Elijah Baley work with a robot named R Daneel Olivaw to solve crimes of the future?
4/6. ‘The Mermaids Singing’ was the first book about Dr. Tony Hill and DI Carol Jordan by Val McDermid, and ‘The Wire in the Blood’ was its sequel which gave its name to the TV series of adaptations. But from which poet did she take the title ‘The Mermaids Singing’?
5/6. Which historical murder mystery is set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327?
6/6. Ngaio Marsh combined her writing career with her interest in the theatre. Her detective (Patrick Malahide when televised) had the same name as the leading actor in Elizabethan London – what name did she pick?
