Newly published: David Lehman, The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir (Cornell University Press, 2022). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. From Sherlock...
Gregory Brazeal, University of South Dakota Law School, has published The Politics of Crime Stories in The New Rambler. Here is the abstract. Book review of “Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State,” by Andrew Pepper....
Forthcoming from Collins/Harper: Martin Edwards, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators (Collins Crime Club, August 2022). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents....
The ACD Society has launched! The Society is devoted to studying and enjoying Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s works. The Society awards prizes for the best scholarly writing about Doyle, so if you have nominations, please...
American Comparative Literature Association / Call For Papers / Conferences / Law and Crime Fiction
by · Published October 5, 2020 · Last modified October 16, 2020
Call for papers American Comparative Literature Association meeting 2021 Fully virtual, 8-11 April 2021 Are you interested in participating in our seminar? Crime Fiction, Global Mapping and Grand Narratives This seminar examines the capacities...
Call For Papers / Law and Crime Fiction
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS—EDITED COLLECTION Proposal/abstract deadline: November 1, 2020 Final essays due: April 2021 The Crossroads of Crime Writing: Historical, Sociological and Cultural Contexts/ Intersections/ Perspectives This volume, which will be proposed to a...
At CrimeReads, Molly Odintz discusses policing in crime fiction, and the ways in which it can reflect the realities that we see daily in our communities and our society. She writes in part, [T]he...
Call for Proposals / Law and Crime Fiction / Law and Detective Fiction / Law and Fiction / Law and Humanities / Law and Literature
by · Published February 18, 2020 · Last modified September 24, 2020
Look at this Call For Proposals! How interesting! Through a Glass Darkly: European History and Politics in Contemporary Crime Narratives Monica Dall’Asta, Jacques Migozzi, Federico Pagello, Andrew Pepper eds. To talk about...
Barrister Olly Jarvis maintains The Crime Hub, an interesting intersection of crime fiction, true crime, and crime fiction. Mr. Jarvis is a thriller writer himself, author of Unconvicted (2018), Death by Dangerous (2015), and...
On occasion of the launch of the Monash Crime Fiction Project, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) hosts best-selling author Tara Moss in conversation with Dr. Barbara Pezzotti, reading from and discussing her latest novel Dead Man Switch (release...
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