Sometimes it feels as if the murder victim has been inserted into a book as a prop, to make the story happen for other people.
An act of infinite cruelty
Category: Defining Murder Mysteries
Detective Fiction. Murder Mysteries.
To some extent the terms are interchangeable. But what are the connotations?
You Are Not Alone
The world is saturated with murder mysteries.
Strychnine and the Wild Surmise
Upstairs, in a fine old house, Mrs Inglethorp dies of strychnine poisoning ...
The Cleverest Christie: The Reversal
Readers believe we are solving one particular mystery, when all along something else entirely has been going on.
MURDER MYSTERIES AND PHILOSOPHY
Murder mysteries can be about death and the profound mystery of life itself.
Literary Murder Mystery
What does it mean to say a mystery novel is literary?
Einstein and Mystery
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
Forgotten Facts and Hidden Meanings
You can’t really discuss Australian crime fiction without mentioning Jane Harper’s first book. It has been spectacularly successful.
Here's one reason.
The Social Mask
Agatha Christie can be taken seriously as a modernist author.
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