“His cramped and claustrophobic brain”: Confinement and Freedom in John Wray’s Lowboy by Pascale Antolin

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Romanul misterelor în literatura română a secolului al XIX-lea - o pagină de istorie literară uitată - by Manuela-Gabriela Ursu

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Eva Rossmann’s mystery novel «Russen kommen». The Russians Are Coming. New Crimes, Old Fears, and Intercultural Alliances by Heike Henderson

“…Eva Rossmann’s mystery novel Russen kommen, the tenth in a popular series, takes up a hot topic in Austria’s tourism industry: the tensions surrounding the recent influx of newly rich Russian visitors. …”
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Evil narrated. Reflections on the work of Luigi Bernardi by Marco Amici

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“Readers” and “Writers” in Japanese Detective Fiction, 1920s–30s: Tracing Shifts from Edogawa Rampo’s “Beast in the Shadows” to <i>The Demon of the Lonely Isle</i> by Shoko Komatsu, Eric Siercks

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Murders on the Campus by Šárka Bubíková

“… [Review of The Contemporary Academic Mystery Novel: A Study in Genre by Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik (Peter Lang, 2021)] …”
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Transfrontera Crimes: Representations of the Juárez Femicides in Recent Fictional and Non-Fictional Accounts by Marietta Messmer

“…In her article, Marrietta Messmer discusses the representation of the Juárez femicides and their traumatizing effects on the Juárez/El Paso community in four recently published accounts: Teresa Rodriguez's journalistic account The Daughters of Juarez (2007), the documentary Señorita Extraviada (2001) directed by Lourdes Portillo, the feature film Bordertown (2006), directed by Gregory Nava, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba's mystery novel Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders (2005). …”
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Eco's Echoes: Fictional Theory and Detective Practice in The Name of the Rose by David H. Richter

“…Peirce and Aristotle appears in a detective not only more fallible than Sherlock Holmes but more aware of what his powers consist of and why they work and fail. (2) Eco's explanation of what he calls the "iterative scheme" in popular fiction—ways of handling time that allow for indefinite sequelae —appears negatively here, where time and time's passage are given their full durational weight. (3) Eco's discussion of closed and open texts, and of a third category "of which the chairman is probably Tristram Shandy ," which evades both modes of reading and forces one into consciousness of the reading process itself, is enacted in The Name of the Rose , in a traditionally closed genre (the mystery) which is first opened but finally given an ending that deconstructs the mystery novel by forcing the reader into the third, Shandean, mode.…”
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Eating Wasps by Anita Nair - A Book Review by Dr. C. Chellappan

“…Eating Wasps is an appealing mystery novel written by Anita Nair. It is set in the setting of a small Indian town by the river Nila. …”
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Cheesecake Manor, Californie : Raymond Chandler entre roman à énigme et roman hard-boiled by Isabelle Boof-Vermesse

“…In his critical essays, &#34;The Simple Art of Murder&#34; (1944), &#34;Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel&#34; (1949), &#34;Notes on English and American Style&#34; (1949), &#34;Introduction to Killer in the Rain&#34; (1950), Chandler contrasts hard-boiled fiction with its British counterpart, the whodunit, to propose a definition by exclusion of the American formula. …”
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Le fonds La Villemarqué : une source importante pour l’histoire de l’ethnographie et des études celtiques by Fañch Postic

“…The archives - nearly 6 000 documents - contain a preponderant part of correspondence, but also loose sheets, manuscripts (Breton mysteries, novel in Breton language of Laouënan), etc. …”
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‘We live one in another’: The Gothic and uncanny representation of the female double in The Crime of Laura Sarelle by Joseph Shearing (pseudonym of Marjorie Bowen) by Allyson Kreuiter

“…Writing under the pseudonym Joseph Shearing, Bowen produced what can be considered Gothic mystery novels such as The Crime of Laura Sarelle (1941). …”
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Madness and Revenge: Gendered False Consciousness in the Golden Age Crime Novel by Samantha Walton

“…Taking this dissonance in feminist thought as our starting point, this essay will examine representations of madness in three golden age mystery novels by female authors – Christianna Brand's Green for Danger (1945), Gladys Mitchell's Laurels Are Poison (1947),and Dorothy L. …”
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Comparative Analysis and Comparison of Police and Detective Literature Components in the Works of Agatha Christie and Ismail Fasih by elham arabshahi kashi, Reza Shajari

“…Extended Abstract Introduction Detective fiction is one of the most popular branches of fiction all over the world. Mystery novels are one of the types of this literary genre that rely on the detective element and try to decipher the strange crime that has happened. …”
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