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Midcentury Jacobeans: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and “The Duchess of Malfi”

August 16, 2019

I’ve had some cheering news recently: a scholarly article of mine is going to be published in the journal ELH …

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“Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare

December 19, 2018

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

July 7, 2018

Given that Cover Her Face is a P.D. James novel named after a line from The Duchess of Malfi, and …

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Nine Tailors Make A Dame: Crime Fiction and Book Covers

May 2, 2018

Whilst rummaging around the primary texts for my current research project (a study of the novels of Agatha Christie), I …

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The Key to the Case: Locked Rooms in Classic Detective Fiction

May 25, 2013

‘She smiled back at me, closed my door, and  a few moments later I heard her key turn in the …

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The Right Side of the Tracks: Railways in Classic Detective Fiction

May 21, 2013

Railways pervade the classic whodunnit.  They bring detectives to the crime scene take criminals away from it, provide alibis and …

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Who Didn’t It: Guilt and Innocence in Golden Age Detective Fiction

May 21, 2013

The whodunnit is, amongst other things, a novel about crime, which ranges the forces of law and justice against those …

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Bluff and Hearty: The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre

May 16, 2013

Anyone lured to the Criterion by hopes of seeing a dashing tale of British pluck and derring-do in the form …

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Gentlemen and Players: The Police and the Amateurs in Detective Fiction

May 6, 2013

The police have received a rather raw deal in classic detective fiction.  Sherlock Holmes mentions the gentlemen of Scotland Yard …

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Books of Hours: Time and Plot in Golden Age Detective Novels

May 4, 2013

She woke with a sudden start.  How much time had passed she did not know.  Glancing at her watch, she …

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