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Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Judge and His Hangman (1950)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or check out my short story collection featuring Victorian female detective Meinir Davies; preorder now! Review (5 out of 5) This is one of a pair of ‘Inspector Barlach mysteries’ by Dürrenmatt, but I have…
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CL Tolbert – The Legacy (2023)
Preamble The ‘see also’ section below gives you a hint of the story, its themes, and its style, and is spoiler-free, but reviews themselves aren’t guaranteed to be thus! If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. See also These lists capture other detective/crime…
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel (1958)
Preamble The ‘see also’ section below gives you a hint of the story, its themes, and its style, and is spoiler-free, but reviews themselves aren’t guaranteed to be thus! If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. See also These lists capture other detective/crime…
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MRC Kasasian – The Mangle Street Murders (2013)
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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Anthony Horowitz – The Twist of a Knife (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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Will Carver – Nothing Important Happened Today (2019)
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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Claire Harman – Murder by the Book (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…
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When the detective is the sidekick
A few years ago, I had the great joy of writing something for a fascinating collection edited by Lucy Andrew and Sam Saunders, A Study in Sidekicks (2021). I had been playing around with fiction adjacent to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes for a long time, like female detective stories of the mid-to-late C19, and…
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Alex Pavesi – Eight Detectives (2020)
Preamble As I read and write and think a lot about detective and crime fiction, I’m starting to put together quick, bite-size reviews of the books in these genres. Sadly, capacity is too limited to cover all the films and TV series I watch too, but these might be added in the future. The ‘see…
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China Miéville – The City and the City (2009)
Preamble As I read and write and think a lot about detective and crime fiction, I’m starting to put together quick, bite-size reviews of the books in these genres. Sadly, capacity is too limited to cover all the films and TV series I watch too, but these might be added in the future. The ‘see…
Dominique Gracia 