Guns in the Vicarage: On the Textual Criticism of Detective Fiction
Textual criticism isn’t a discipline often employed in the study of detective fiction, as far as I know. The establishing …
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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 …
The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Cat of the Wimseys: More Detective Fiction Covers
Here’s another detective novel paperback which seems to drastically misunderstand the story it contains. Or has it? After my previous …
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 Corpse in the Cellar and the Beam in the Eye: A Guest Review by A J Hall
This is a guest post by A.J. Hall, a lawyer, sailor and writer. She can be found on Twitter @legionseagle …
Five Red Herrings, Filleted: A Dorothy L. Sayers Guest Post by A.J. Hall
This is a guest post by A.J. Hall, a lawyer, sailor and writer. She can be found on Twitter @legionseagle …
