Category: Detective and crime fiction
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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