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Book launch day!
It’s finally here. Official Book Launch Day. It’s been a while since I finished writing this, but I’m still deeply excited about it. Across 12 stories set in the late-C19, Meinir joins forces with Sherlock Holmes, Dorcas Dene, and the official police on the streets of London, from East to West, to help public servants,…
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Margalit Fox – Conan Doyle for the Defence (2018)
Preamble As I read and write and think a lot about detective and crime fiction, I’ve a series of reviews on the theme. Sadly, capacity is too limited to cover detective films and TV series too! If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here.…
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Louise Mumford – The Safe House (2022)
Preamble As I read and write and think a lot about detective and crime fiction, I’ve a series of reviews on the theme. Sadly, capacity is too limited to cover detective films and TV series too! If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here.…
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Countdown to book day: Victorian detective stories
My short story collection featuring Sherlock Holmes and a brand new Victorian female detective, The Meinir Davies Casebook, is coming out this month — 19 October, although preorders and Kickstarter backers may have already gotten their mitts on it! 😆 So, in the run up, I thought I’d share a selection of Victorian (or neo-Victorian)…
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Seishi Yokomizo – The Village of Eight Graves (1950)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; preorder now! Review (3 out of 5) This is yet another post-War Japanese detective tale that I discovered thanks to…
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Josephine Tey – The Man in the Queue (1929)
Preamble As I read and write and think a lot about detective and crime fiction, I’ve a series of reviews on the theme. Sadly, capacity is too limited to cover detective films and TV series too! If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here.…
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Maggie O’Farrell – The Marriage Portrait (2022)
Preamble As I read and write and think a lot about detective and crime fiction, I’ve a series of reviews on the theme, and occasionally I review things outside the genre too. This is one of those! See also These lists capture other detective/crime stories and characters that I thought of as I was reading…
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Laurie R King – A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; preorder now! See also These lists capture other detective/crime stories and characters that I thought of as I was…
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Seishi Yokomizo – The Honjin Murders (1946)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; preorder now! Review (5 out of 5) I am not always a great fan of the twentieth century; I’m mostly…
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