And, to maintain that international feel, CrimeFest has, as the three Featured Guest Authors, Karin Fossum, one of Scandinavia's top crime writers, Jeff Lindsay from the States, and Britain's very own Ian Rankin. We couldn't be happier that we have someone representing a region with some...
Women writing crime fiction, 1860–1880: fourteen American, British and Australian authorsdoi:10.1080/13825577.2017.1282201Adrienne E. GavinRoutledge
Christie’s success as an author of sleuth stories has earned her titles like the “Queen of Crime” and the “Queen of Mystery.” She also wrote romance novels like Unfinished Portrait (1934) and A Daughter’s a Daughter (1952) under the name Mary Westmacott. In total, Christie published...
Although there is some reporting about absenteeism, the main message is that those involved in crime have been “kicked out of school”. According to one interviewee – apparently talking about Croydon –“there are Pupil Referral Units popping up all over the place to accommodate all the ...
Hate crime seems to be the only crime the police, the judiciary and the lawmakers are interested. But when some act or statement, either spoken or written, can be defined as a criminal act of 'hate speech' by anyone who decides they are offended by it, is the prosecution the alleged ...
Lord Danvers Investigates, Victorian true crime The Elizabeth and Richardliterary suspense series Where There is Love, historical romance series The Daughters of Courage, family saga A Wind in the Hebrides The Isle of Lewis, the northernmost island in the Outer Hebrides, a dot in the ocean, but...
who knew Sayle through the stand-up circuit, featured loose and unpredictable plotting which allowed Sayle to show off the many characters he'd developed while performing in clubs. During the "The Young One"'s run, Sayle also made a surprisingly sober turn in the dark crime drama "Gorky Par...
Jock McCulloch.Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902 to 1935. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000,pp. 36–54. 15. Charles van Onselen.Chibaro: African Mine Labour in Southern Rhodesia.Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1980, p. 56; Ian R. Phimister. ‘African...
“100 Good Detective Novels,” by Mike Grost. The emphasis is also on detective fiction, so obviously some of the authors will be the same as those in Curt’s list, but Mike doesn’t restrict himself to British authors, and the time period is much wider, ranging from 1866 to 1988, ...
“They were the popular journalism of the day, recording, usually with a combination of report and ballad, sometimes with ballad alone, every important or interesting event,” Jonathan Goodman writes in Bloody Versicles.“The crime broadsheets, with their tut-tutting moral tone giving the excuse...