Bookish: Detecting Trio -

Do you miss Lord Peter Wimsey? If so, you're in luck.

Jill Paton Walsh is spinning a Wimsey-inspired story called The Attenbury Emeralds with the permission of the Sayers Estate. Tom Nolan reviews it, a new Swedish mystery, and more at the WSJ.

# Jake Adelstein worked as a reporter on the Crime Beat of the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun for twelve years, although he's originally from Missouri. Zac O' Yeah caught up with him and talked with him about his book Tokyo Vice.

# Author Judith Flanders recounts how Crime Detection and Scotland Yard were established during the Victorian Era in her book The Invention of Murder, reviewed by Wendy Moore at the Telegraph.

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