Murder mysteries can be about death and the profound mystery of life itself.
CAN MURDER MYSTERIES BE VEHICLES FOR PHILOSOPHY?
A Thought to Live By
From The School of Life
Literary Murder Mystery
What does it mean to say a mystery novel is literary?
An act of infinite cruelty
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.
Einstein and Mystery
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
The Impossible
The Elsinore Vanish is a variation of the classical locked-room mystery.
Ah, the French
Roland Barthes proposes an erotics of reading. And crime fiction does not come off well.
