Midcentury Jacobeans: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and “The Duchess of Malfi”
I’ve had some cheering news recently: a scholarly article of mine is going to be published in the journal ELH …
I’ve had some cheering news recently: a scholarly article of mine is going to be published in the journal ELH …
Yesterday the journal Shakespeare published an article entitled “Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare”. The reason …
Given that Cover Her Face is a P.D. James novel named after a line from The Duchess of Malfi, and …
Whilst rummaging around the primary texts for my current research project (a study of the novels of Agatha Christie), I …
‘She smiled back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her key turn in the …
Railways pervade the classic whodunnit. They bring detectives to the crime scene take criminals away from it, provide alibis and …
The whodunnit is, amongst other things, a novel about crime, which ranges the forces of law and justice against those …
Anyone lured to the Criterion by hopes of seeing a dashing tale of British pluck and derring-do in the form …
The police have received a rather raw deal in classic detective fiction. Sherlock Holmes mentions the gentlemen of Scotland Yard …
She woke with a sudden start. How much time had passed she did not know. Glancing at her watch, she …