This course aims to be an enjoyable exploration of detective and crime fiction. Each year, we pick a different theme and gather together experts from across the University to explore a range of novels ...

This course will investigate forms of detective fiction- and discourses of mystery and crime more broadly-in literature, cinema and other media. We will rethink their development form the ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...

Then, following the example of fellow African ... France’s most prestigious prize for crime fiction and was followed by seven more. Although written in English, all but one of the novels ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward ... on ...

“Crime fiction authors in Bangkok have been among ... a while back about a foreigner whose Thai wife had him killed and then barbecued him,” Newman said. “Then there was a man who lived ...

How satisfying it is, then, to discover that the true heir ... All told, it’s a hugely entertaining read. [ Crime fiction: Graeme McCrae Burnet, Paula Hawkins, Kate Summerscale, Ian Rankin ...