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JOANNA BAKER

Murder, Mystery, Villages, Tasmania

  • About
    • About Joanna
    • Like you …
    • Reading Agatha Christie on the Lonely Edge of the World
  • The Three Villages Murder Mysteries
    • Devastation Road
    • Devastation Road: Readers’ Notes and Discussion Points
    • The Elsinore Vanish
      • Readers’ Notes, The Elsinore Vanish
      • The Elsinore Vanish: Some Thoughts
    • Evermore. Out now.
  • The Slipping Place
    • The Slipping Place
    • The Slipping Place blurb
    • The Ideas Behind The Slipping Place
    • The Slipping Place: Readers’ Notes
    • Hobart
    • Praise for The Slipping Place
    • Acknowledgements, The Slipping Place
  • Blog

Category: Ideas

Crime Fiction and Literature

October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Clive James has been trying to read a Henry James novel.

An act of infinite cruelty

September 19, 2022July 25, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

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.

A Thought to Live By

November 20, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

From The School of Life

MURDER MYSTERIES AND PHILOSOPHY

November 18, 2019July 25, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Murder mysteries can be about death and the profound mystery of life itself.

Literary Murder Mystery

November 17, 2019July 25, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

What does it mean to say a mystery novel is literary?

Einstein and Mystery

July 6, 2019May 26, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

Greek Tragedy and Freud: Auden on the Detective Story

May 30, 2019May 26, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

For W. H. Auden detective fiction embodied a timeless idea, which appears in Classical, Christian and Freudian thought. 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Devastation Road. "Outstanding" "Intelligent and sensitive". Available online everywhere as paperback and ebook. Buy now.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Elsinore Vanish is now available everywhere as paperback and ebook. Buy now.

Evermore. The third of the Three Villages Murder Mysteries. Out now.

The Slipping Place is available online in paperback and ebook. Buy now.

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  • Agatha Christie
  • Defining Murder Mysteries
  • Hobart and Tasmania
  • How to Write
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  • The Three Village Mysteries
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  • Why Do We Love Murder Mysteries?

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