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Gay Marris – A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder (2024)
Preamble As I read and write and think a lot about detective and crime fiction, I review 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. Or you can…
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Akimitsu Takagi – The Tattoo Murder Case (1948)
Preamble As I read and write and think a lot about detective and crime fiction, I review 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. Or you can…
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Eds. Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski – The Perfect Crime (2022)
Preamble As I read and write and think a lot about detective and crime fiction, I review 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. Or you can…
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Ed. Martin Edwards – The Measure of Malice (2019)
Preamble As I read and write and think a lot about detective and crime fiction, I review 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. Or you can…
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Stacking the Shelves: 2024 edition
I tried to keep my To Be Read list down to a reasonable limit in 2023, not least because I set up an ambitious Great Nineteenth-Century Reading Project that included about as many books as I was expecting to read! I am only about 25% of the way through that list (but that’s another story),…
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James Patterson and Brian Sitts – Holmes, Marple and Poe (2024)
Preamble If you enjoy Sherlock Holmes and detective fiction, take a look at my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies: order now! See also These lists capture other stories and characters that I thought of as I was reading this piece. I won’t explain why, to avoid spoilers, but they’re associations and…
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Representations of Disability and Illness (2023 Victorian Reading Project)
This was the second theme on my Great Nineteenth-Century Reading Project list, in part because I was thinking about a new research project that was related. As with the first theme, Race and Empire, there is a mix of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in this list. I’m indebted to Jill Ehnenn for some critical pointers…
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Futaro Yamada – The Meiji Guillotine Murders (2024)
Preamble If you enjoy nineteenth-century historical fiction, take a look at my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies: order now! See also These lists capture other stories and characters that I thought of as I was reading this piece. I won’t explain why, to avoid spoilers, but they’re associations and not ‘if…
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Race and Empire (2023 Victorian Reading Project)
The year isn’t quite done, but I’m stuck in the middle of a few different books from my TBR pile so there won’t be many reviews before the end of the year. So, instead, I thought I’d reflect a little on the reading project I started at the beginning of this year, in part to…
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Lesley McDowell – Clairmont (2024)
Preamble If you enjoy nineteenth-century historical fiction, take a look at my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies: order now! See also These lists capture other stories and characters that I thought of as I was reading this piece. I won’t explain why, to avoid spoilers, but they’re associations and not ‘if you…
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