“Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare
Yesterday the journal Shakespeare published an article entitled “Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare”. The reason …
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(Paperback) Cover Her Face: P.D. James and More Detective Novel Covers
Given that Cover Her Face is a P.D. James novel named after a line from The Duchess of Malfi, and …
Nine Tailors Make A Dame: Crime Fiction and Book Covers
Whilst rummaging around the primary texts for my current research project (a study of the novels of Agatha Christie), I …
The Key to the Case: Locked Rooms in Classic Detective Fiction
‘She smiled back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her key turn in the …
The Right Side of the Tracks: Railways in Classic Detective Fiction
Railways pervade the classic whodunnit. They bring detectives to the crime scene take criminals away from it, provide alibis and …
Who Didn’t It: Guilt and Innocence in Golden Age Detective Fiction
The whodunnit is, amongst other things, a novel about crime, which ranges the forces of law and justice against those …
Bluff and Hearty: The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre
Anyone lured to the Criterion by hopes of seeing a dashing tale of British pluck and derring-do in the form …
Gentlemen and Players: The Police and the Amateurs in Detective Fiction
The police have received a rather raw deal in classic detective fiction. Sherlock Holmes mentions the gentlemen of Scotland Yard …
Books of Hours: Time and Plot in Golden Age Detective Novels
She woke with a sudden start. How much time had passed she did not know. Glancing at her watch, she …
Hamlet and Harley Quin, or, “From Minor to Major”
Miss Climpson, Harley Quin, Joe Sixsmith, Montague Egg: if you’ve heard of these people you clearly have excellent taste. If …
