Death and dying as a literary device: a reading of selected works by contemporary Malaysian writers by Ali Termizi, Arbaayah, Mohd Noor, Nurul Soleha, Wan Salim, Wan Iman

“…In addition it adds closure to the plot, a closure which is not alien to most detective / crime fiction and horror / ghost stories. Presumably death has to be meaningful in these genres in order to be treated as an important part of human existence and thus elevated its status as a significant literary device. …”
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La valle del Nilo: il paesaggio del mito nelle rappresentazioni cinematografiche / The Nile valley: the myth landscape in film representations by Claudio Gambino

“…This Big River, named by ancient Egyptians, has provided the set for many films including Death on the Nile, based on the Agatha Christie mystery novel of the same name. It is a crime fiction that takes place aboard the Steam Ship Sudan, a fluvial steamship which is still a must for all the tourists who want to cruise the Nile. …”
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Phraseological motifs for Distinguishing Between Literary Genres. A Case Study on the Motifs of Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication by Iva Novakova

“…They are accessible on http://phraseotext.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/phraseobase/index.html and contain 1000 novels (published from the 1950s to the present), partitioned into six sub-corpora: general literature (GEN), crime fiction (CRIM), romances (ROM), historical novels (HIST), science fiction (SF) and fantasy (FY). …”
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Gomorra: Napoli e la scena fantasmatica del tardo-capitalismo Globale / Gomorra: Naples as the primal fantasy of Late Capitalism by Gabriele Costa

“…Roberto Saviano’s best seller Gomorra has often been labelled as crime fiction and described as a katabasis in “Hell”, where the reader is drawn into following the uncanny figure of an autofictional author who bears witness to the abjection of this criminal empire. …”
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Open Strategy in a Smart City by Suvi Einola, Marko Kohtamäki, Harri Hietikko

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A Comparative Study of Ten Little Indians and The Alphabet of Death from the Perspective of Criminal Psychology by Esmaeil Najar, Elahe Gouran

“…Introduction Agatha Christie (1890-1976), as one of the most prominent writers of crime fiction genre, has created many works that can be examined from the perspective of criminal psychology and criminology. …”
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Cadavres féminins et fictions policières contemporaines by Maud Desmet

“…The feminine corpse, because it reunites two territories both enigmatic and potentially threatening to men—femininity and death—is a troubling object. In crime fictions, the staging of a feminine corpse can take the most poetic shape, through the resurgence of the myth of Ophelia, reassuring the audience in their “romantic” vision of female death. …”
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E. A. Poe and A. A. Shkljarevskij: Foregrounding Deduction and/or Social Commentary – A Comparative Study of Early Detective Fiction by Maja Pandžić

“…Keywords: 19th century Russian detective fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, Aleksandr Andreevich Shkljarevskij, social criticism, ratiocination, crime fiction…”
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Une histoire oubliée : la genèse française du terme « film noir » dans les années 1930 et ses implications transnationales by Thomas Pillard

“…According to the established historiography, the generic label “film noir” was used in France in 1946 to refer to a series of Hollywood crime fictions produced in the 1940s and 1950s. Since then, the term has been exclusively associated with Hollywood pictures and “film noir” has been considered a specifically American form. …”
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‘He just isn’t my Frost’: Television adaptation of R.D. Wingfield’s Jack Frost. by Simon Statham

“…Keywords Adaptation, characterisation, A Touch of Frost, Frost at Christmas, impoliteness, free direct speech, dialogue, television drama, crime fiction…”
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