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First of 2076 : inaugurating the Special Police Series
With thanks to Didier Poiret This novel by Jean Bruce is the first book published in the famous “Spécial Police” Fleuve Noir series. It was published in Paris in August 1949. This was four years...
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Blood and Sex: Violence and sexuality in Greek crime fiction series of the...
By Nikos Filippaios (PhD candidate, University of Ioannina, Greece) Since its beginning, crime fiction in Greece has usually been distributed by publishers in multi-volume series. The first series of...
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Murder in the Age of Chaos: Investigating Italy’s Past
Barbara Pezzotti, Investigating Italy’s Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series: Murder in the Age of Chaos (London and New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2016). This book is the...
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Networks and Connections in the Crime Genre
International Crime Genre Research Group 7th biennial conference: Networks and Connections in the Crime Genre Friday 26 – Saturday 27 May, 2017 National University of Ireland, Galway Under the broad...
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View ArticleBook Cover Design and the Legitimation of Crime Fiction in Czechoslovakia...
by Marcela Poucova, University of Brno After the 1948 coup which brought the Communist Party to power in Czechoslovakia, the cultural climate changed considerably. Before then, there had been a...
View ArticleThe”unknown author” who sold 200 Million Books
An encouraging article by Dalya Alberge in The Observer marks the first publication in English of one of the “Novels of the night” (romans de la nuit) by Frédéric Dard. The much anticipated Bird in a...
View ArticleBelfast-Munich-Dublin: An Interview with Ellen Dunne
Interview with Ellen Dunne [Dominique Jeannerod] What made you decide to set your first novel (Wie Du mir, 2011) in Belfast ? [Ellen Dunne] I became interested in the Northern Irish Conflict aged...
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Andrea Camilleri has died today, in Rome, aged 93. True internationalist and international crime fiction icon, world-famous for his charismatic detective, Sicilian Commissario Salvo Montalbano,...
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Forgotten Connections in Popular Culture I. De Miguel The Graduate Center – Bernard Baruch College City University of New York (CUNY) While Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, and in particular, Murders...
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