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Tag Archives: crime fiction

The Colonel, in the Garden, with the Impact of Wry Melancholy: Margaret Mayhew’s Detective Novels

May 11, 2022

I recently read six novels by Margaret Mayhew, after stumbling across her work in the back catalogue of Joffe Books …

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Writing in Sequence: A Guest Post by Penelope Wallace

October 5, 2020

This is a guest post by Penelope Wallace, author of the “Ragaris” novels. Penelope and I have been taking about …

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Review: “Murder to Music” by Margaret Newman

July 4, 2020

Murder to Music was published in 1959, the first novel of a promising detective novelist who apparently then left the …

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Guns in the Vicarage: On the Textual Criticism of Detective Fiction

September 14, 2019

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

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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The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Cat of the Wimseys: More Detective Fiction Covers

May 28, 2018

Here’s another detective novel paperback which seems to drastically misunderstand the story it contains.  Or has it?  After my previous …

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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 Corpse in the Cellar and the Beam in the Eye: A Guest Review by A J Hall

August 25, 2015

This is a guest post by A.J. Hall, a lawyer, sailor and writer.  She can be found on Twitter @legionseagle …

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Five Red Herrings, Filleted: A Dorothy L. Sayers Guest Post by A.J. Hall

October 3, 2013

This is a guest post by A.J. Hall, a lawyer, sailor and writer.  She can be found on Twitter @legionseagle …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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