Jamie Bernthal-Hooker

@jcbernthal.com

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Agatha Christie, queer theory, and offshore wind in one strange mix. I write crime fiction and books about crime fiction. Think of an awkward, once-high-achieving millennial Brit. Hello!

Nine people outlined in various colours above the words 'Clue-don't' written in the style of a ransom note, with each letter cut out and pasted.
A green background with gold patterns including a stylised woman’s face, atop logos for Golden Age Mysteries Ltd, FSU College of Communication and Information, and The Golden Age of Crime. Text below reads: ‘Silent Echoes: Golden Age Crime Fiction and Trauma, FSU (Florida State University) London Study Centre, 12-13 September 2025’
Theatre programme for The Comedy About Spies held in front of a stage.
A stylised woman's profile, in shades of blue and gold. Publicity image for Golden Age Mysteries Limited.
Book cover: Jessica Brick Investigates by Jamie Bernthal
A copy of the book Agatha Christie a Companion to the Mystery fiction by J.C. Bernthal, series editor Elizabeth Foxwell, volume 12 of McFarland Companions to Mystery fiction, overlaid with a colourful graphic reading Best Part of the Book with Mark Perzel.
Red poster for the film 'Mississippi Madam: The Life of Nellie Jackson'
Newspaper photograph of a woman with big hair wearing pearls. It is headed 'English Bride'.
Picture of a smiling woman with white sunlit hair and a red spotted scarf.
Title page of The Female Detective by Andrew Forrester, signed by Val McDermid, Jessica Mann, Alana Knight, PD James, Lucy Foley, Kate Summerscale, Kate Rhodes, Sophie Hannah, and Frances Brady.
White book cover with words ‘ARE WOMEN HUMAN? Dorothy L. Sayers. Penetrating, sensible, and witty essays on the role of women in society.’
A black and white scene from René Clair’s And Then There Were None. A man, Walter Huston, holds a candelabra while a young woman, June Duprez, looks concerned.
Promotional image for Towards Zero. A woman sits up in a bed on a beach against the sea, while various people dressed in 1930s evening wear stand around in vaguely provocative poses.
A view of a blue-lit stage from the wings. Ropes appear at one end, a table and chairs are visible on stage and the auditorium, with seats, tables, and panels is all red. There is a dark dropped screen and overhead lights top-right.
Book cover of Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (blue and white text and graphic on a red and black background, published by Dodd, Mead in 1944)
A crossword grid, labelled 'Crime and Detection'
The blurry face of a brown and white guinea pig who is resting on the fluffy white and pink-clad arm of a man, whose amused face is half-visible.
A gold vintage Marconi type A microphone on a grey background
Two hands holding a plaque with NATHER written on it (instead of NATHAN)
A sculpted bust of Agatha Christie inset in a large book-like sculpture, with the legend 'Agatha Christie, 1890-1976' and an image of a mousetrap above the head. There are people and a bright advertisement in the background.
Linda, a woman in white, from The Traitors
Agatha Christie typing on a typewriter
A man holding a programme for Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution in front of a plaque referencing Queen Mary
Starry sky with telephone cables in the foreground.
Night sky with a treetop and rooftop in the foreground.
Four books: Joseph Skvorecky’s Miss Silver’s Past, The Reader Guide & Handbook 1934, Agatha Christie Christie’s They Do It With Mirrors, and John Dickson Carr’s The Lost Gallows.
A Twitter post from Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker dated Aug 11, 2021, that reads: “TIL that the world’s oldest tortoise is in a committed same-sec relationship.” It includes two screenshots of a Wikipedia page for Jonathan the Tortoise, aged 188-189.
Book cover for “a daughter’s a daughter” by Mary Westmacott. The cover is sepia, depicting an older woman in the top left and a younger woman in the bottom right.
A jack-up vessel on a grey sea in front of a multicoloured sky, with rocks in the forefront.
A plush you capybara with two toy guinea pigs on its back, on a wooden surface in front of some books.
A book next to a slipcase depicting a girl with the words ‘CHRISTIE, Fiabe gialle’ (Christie, Yellow Fairy Tales)
Image showing actors, cards, and a bottle with the text ‘audible original, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, A Poirot Mystery’, and a yellow banner reading ‘only from audible’
Book cover of Agatha Christie, An Autobiography
Smudge, a black and orange guinea pig, eating hay