“We’ve had quite a Shakespearean evening, haven’t we?”: Shakespeare and Dorothy Sayers by Alessandra Petrina

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Polish version of hard-boiled novel: Death in Breslau by Marek Krajewski on the background of the Polish crime fiction history by Anna Gemra

“…The book market has been dominated by foreign authors, such as Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Arthur Conan Doyle and so on. Only the novel Death in Breslau, 1999 (the first of 11 novels in Eberhard Mock’s series published so far), which is Marek Krajewski’s debut and representing the hard-boiled genre, has broken this domination. …”
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Adapting the Golden Age Crime Fiction Genre in the “Kain Songket Mysteries” Series by Philip, Susan

“…The Golden Age novels of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers offer neat solutions to their mysteries, implying an unproblematic return to the right path; at the same time, the conventions of the form underline the corruption and danger hidden within these apparently perfect societies. …”

Dynamic aspect of cognitive features of the feminine cultural type “private detective” by Kusaeva Elena E.

“…The article focuses on the dynamic aspect of the main cognitive features of the feminine culture type “private detective” represented by the artistic characters of the English detective discourse of Agatha Christie, Patricia Wentworth, Josephine Tay, Dorothy Sayers, Phyllis James, Phil Rickman, etc. The evolution of the English gender detective discourse includes three historical periods: Victorian Era detective (1860-1920), Golden Age detective (1920 -1949), Hard-boiled detective (1940-1980), contemporary detective (c 1980). …”
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