ICYMI: The series Crime Files, published by Palgrave Macmillan, is a valuable set of studies on various topics in detective fiction. The latest title is Sian MacArthur’s Gender Roles and Political Contexts in Cold...
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...
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....
Vasiliy Glushak, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, has published Investigator as Educator in Russian and English Fiction Detectives. Here is the abstract. Pedagogical influence on the suspect at the trial stage is one...
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...
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...
Olivia Rutigliano’s essay The Lady Is a Detective invites us to investigate the Victorian world of detective novels in which female, rather than male, sleuths take center stage. She notes that, Endemic to the...
Deadline Approaching: Proposals Due By May 31, 2020 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 the crime...
Do you like Sherlock Holmes? Would you like to see the places that Holmes and Watson visited look like today? It’s not a three pipe problem. Check out the website The Sherlock Holmes Gazetteer, ...
ICYMI: Jonathan H. Grossman, Department of England, UCLA published The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel with Johns Hopkins University Press in 2002. Here’s a description of the book’s contents from...
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