It is how the detectives respond to superstition which cements the connections between the Conan Doyle and Christie stories
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Agatha Christie never explicitly said so, but many of her Belgian detective’s character traits could be interpreted as being autistic.
The impressionistic tale of a young Edgar Allan Poe may not be based in fact, but it captures the essence of the young writer.
The prestige the role of detective once had has been eroded and needs to be restored.
Whether they are set in a country house or on the mean streets, detective novels tell us so much about human nature.
Readers are invited to a special screening and Q&A with former detective Jackie Malton, criminologist Fiona Brookman and forensic scientist Martin Evison.
The archetype can be traced back to 1920s detective fiction, when gruff, gun-toting, cigarette-smoking mavericks became heroic figures.
Move over Netflix, here’s whodunnit by headphones.
As the literary world says goodbye to the Big Man from Kilmarnock, his friend Gerard Carruthers remembers a writer at the heights of the British canon.
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Visiting Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Leeds
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Professor of English, University of Surrey
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Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in English and American Literatures, Keele University
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Research Assistant, University of Dundee
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Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Georgetown University
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Assistant researcher in Public Health, Swansea University
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Visiting Senior Fellow in English and Creative Writing, University of Suffolk
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Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise, Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education, University of Hull
