Ça traîne en Ukraine… by Paul Bleton

“…Besides Chernobyl, detective fiction leads Ukraine in three directions: according to the three conceptions of French novelists, according to the three chronotopes of historical thrillers and according to the three declinations of Ukrainian authors’ multiculturalism.…”
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Di “gialli” del Mediterraneo e di Ahmet Mithat by Giacomo E. Carretto

“…This article deals with the first mystery novel in the ottoman world, Ahmet Mithat Efendi’s Esrar-ı Cinayat (1883), places this novel in the Mediterranean detective fiction, and speaks of the islamic birth of this kind of narration.…”
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Italian Crime Fiction: A Barbarian Perspective by Philip Weller

“…This article proposes a means of analysing the differences between Detective Fiction and Crime Fiction, in terms of multi genre content, concentrating especially on the development of Italian works in these fields. …”
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Quand l’enquêteur se met à table by Loïc Marcou

“…I will focus on recent Greek crime fiction (especially the novels or short stories of Andreas Apostolidis, Pétros Markaris and Pétros Martinidis) and will compare the role of food in Greek detective fiction with its place in the Mediterranean Noir.…”
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Foundations of credibility. by Tan, Vincent Chee Sum.

“…Detective fictions need foundations of credibility to be believable and thus enjoyable. …”
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The gastronomic exaltation of Leonardo Padura: on the trail of his pantagruelian feasts by Humberto López Cruz

“…Though this is indeed true, it must be stressed that there are certain textual clues that seem not to resonate with the detective fiction genre and could be perceived as incongruent with such categorization. …”
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“Senza andar nulla a pescare negli stranieri”: Jarro e il modello di Fortuné du Boigobey by Michele Morselli

“…Unduly defined as the mysterious pioneer of Italian detective fiction, Piccini actually moulds his novels on Gaboriau’s, Féval’s and especially Boisgobey’s production. …”
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Collins, Wilkie / by Collins, Wilkie, author 648808

“…A pacy tale from the original master of detective fiction Wilkie Collins. Transported from the temples of India to atmospheric Victorian England, the scene is set for a tale which twists between death, drugs, mystery and, most of all, misdirection. …”

Ibsen’s Evangelical Detective: Evidence and Proof in The Wild Duck by Errol Durbach

“… ABSTRACT: The forensic language in The Wild Duck—its emphasis on the search for “proof” and “evidence” in uncovering a number of putative crimes and misdemeanours—relates the play to the Detective Fiction genre of the late nineteenth-century. …”
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As novelas policiárias de Fernando Pessoa e o fair play da ficção policial by Schincariol, Marcelo

“…Argumento que, por meio dos seus apontamentos teóricos sobre o gênero policial, e em diálogo com o processo de composição das novelas policiárias, Pessoa propõe a subversão do “modo de ser” da ficção policial estabelecido pela chamada Golden Age of Detective Fiction.…”
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Settling accounts with history: the Four Seasons, Leonardo Padura by Uriel Quesada

“…Padura started his career as a literary critic, and by the end of the nineties he published the first of his many detective fiction books. His most important detective novels constitute the tetralogy entitled, The Four Seasons. …”
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Names and Identities in the Italian Detective Story by Maria Giovanna Arcamone

“…Indeed, normally at the beginning of events both in the real world and in detective fiction the personalities present in the good and bad texture of events have not yet been identified. …”
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Laura Esquivel and Reyes Calderón’s Inaugural Detective Novels: Transatlantic Hispanic Femicrime by Jeffrey Oxford

“…Laura Esquivel’s 2014 novel A Lupita le gustaba planchar is that author’s as yet sole foray into detective fiction. While the work demonstrates certain parallels to the novela negra, both the author and main character are female, and the plot more closely resembles that of a fast-paced thriller. …”
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The Urban Shift of The Western: Inscriptions of Violence in Cormac McCarthy’s 'No Country for Old Men' by Gianina Roman

“…“Collapse” seems to be the leitmotif of the novel a s it defines both the structure and the substance of this modern western that, infused with elements of detective fiction – an unsolved crime, moral ambiguity, violence, and an action-driven narrative, epitomizes the urban shift of the genre. …”
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The Art of Political Murder de Francisco Goldman y el policial de no-ficción entre Estados Unidos y Guatemala by Andrea Pezzé

“…To understand how the features of detective fiction are used in journalism to support the search for truth, the essay examines the social power of different typologies of Crime Novel. …”
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La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme by Viviane Alary

“…The modalities specific to each author facilitate the reader's access to certain historical knowledge transformed into autofiction, detective fiction, fictionalized testimony, graphic journalism.…”
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Kurt Wallander’s Journey into Autumn: A Reading of Henning Mankell's The Fifth Woman by John Lingard

“… ABSTRACT: The last decade has been a golden age of detective fiction in the four Scandinavian countries: Sweden; Denmark; Norway; and Iceland. …”
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The Case of the Disappearing/Appearing Slow Learner: An Interpretive Mystery by W. John Williamson, James Colin Field

“…The parallels between detective fiction, Chandler’s work as a noir novelist, and hermeneutics are drawn out. …”
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ABOUT LOVE, MURDER AND EMERALDS. IOAN PETRU CULIANU'S ”SERIOUSLY” GAME WITH FICTION by Ciprian Iulian TOROCZKAI

“…This novel is more than mere detective fiction, it is also a magic and esoteric novel, and to understand it we need to refer to magic, astrologic or geomantic practices. …”
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The Novela Negra in a Transatlantic Literary Economy by Glen S. Close

“…In the field of contemporary Hispanic literary studies, there would seem to be few areas of production so starkly determined by such triangulation as detective fiction, and particularly the subgenre of the novela negra. …”
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