{"id":3446,"date":"2020-05-09T16:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T20:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2020-05-09T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T20:52:10","slug":"crime-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/09\/crime-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse mysteries, isn&#8217;t the only novelist who has set a murder in Oxford. Tara Heuze rounds up another ten for us in <a href=\"https:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/europe\/united-kingdom\/england\/articles\/10-criminally-underrated-novelists-from-oxford-university\/\">10 Criminal Underrated Novelists<\/a>, an essay for the website <a href=\"https:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/\">Culture Trip.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among her finds: Kingsley Amis (The Riverside Villas Murder), Nicholas Blake (pseudonym of the poet C. Day Lewis) (The Beast Must Die), and John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey). <a href=\"https:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/europe\/united-kingdom\/articles\/the-smoking-gun-10-must-read-oxford-murder-mysteries\/\">Check out these Oxford mysteries as well, in this Culture Trip essay,&nbsp;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/crimereads.com\/the-many-mysteries-of-oxford\/\">these, collected in a Crime Reads piece.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Molly Odintz gives us a brief history of the academic mystery genre <a href=\"https:\/\/crimereads.com\/a-brief-history-of-academic-mysteries-campus-thrillers-and-research-noir\/\">here<\/a>, for Crime Reads, noting a couple of our favorites, Amanda Cross&#8217;s Death in a Tenured Position, and P. D. James&#8217;s An Unsuitable Job For a Woman. Mystery Readers International gives us an overview of the academic mystery <a href=\"https:\/\/mysteryreaders.org\/journal-index\/academic-mysteries-101\/\">here, in Academic Mysteries 101.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>El\u017cbieta Perkowska-Gawlik discusses Cross&#8217;s book as well as Gail Bowen&#8217;s Burying Ariel in her essay &#8220;Victimization in Academic Mystery Fiction,&#8221; included in The Campus Novel: Regional Or Global (2019). Additional analysis of the genre <a href=\"http:\/\/fp.amu.edu.pl\/the-academic-murder-mystery\/\">here, from Ewa Kraskowska.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/mysteryreaders.org\/journal-index\/oxbridge-mysteries\/\">comprehensive essay from Mystery Readers International<\/a> covers both Oxford and Cambridge as settings, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopyourekillingme.com\/JobCats\/Academics.html\">Stop, You&#8217;re Killing Me<\/a> is a website devoted to the academic mystery. It even has a job index&#8211;you can look up the character by his\/her occupation! We&#8217;re enchanted (and yes, there&#8217;s an entry for psychics and the paranormal). So many clever and devious minds on campus&#8211;we&#8217;ll be back!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse mysteries, isn&#8217;t the only novelist who has set a murder in Oxford. 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