Current Trends in Crime Fiction: Articles and Sites of Interest
I prepared this list of online resources to accompany my presentation of Current Trends in Crime Fiction.
Articles and blog posts
In Los Angeles, literary landmarks give the city its mystique
Your Turn: Readers react to Gene Weingarten and travel story on Los Angeles
The Last Testament of Ross MacDonald
Miles Burton’s “The Secret of High Eldersham”
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff
A Cold Night’s Death: The Allure of Scandinavian Crime Fiction
A History of Detective Stories: Current Trends
Women Are Writing the Best Crime Novels
A Taste for Murder: The Curious Case of Crime Fiction
Italy’s Scott Turow
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers – a Weighty Novel That Still Thrills
Tana French’s Intimate Crime Fiction
A.S. Byatt: Why I Love Margery Allingham
A Passion for Mercy
The Resurgence of Golden Age Crime
The Dangerous Housewife: Santa Barbara’s Margaret Millar
Women, stop apologizing for reading ‘women’s novels.’ That includes you, Hillary.
What Makes Great Detective Fiction, According To T.S. Eliot
Why is the Golden Age fashionable again?
A teen was kidnapped as a newborn. She knew for more than a year, authorities say. (Relates to the novel What Was Mine by Helen Klein Ross)
Sites of interest
Stop! You’re Killing Me
The most useful site on the internet for information on crime fiction. It not only gives the order of books in a series but also provides information about location, ethnicity of protagonists, and loads more. (See the column on the site’s left hand side.) Not to be missed by mystery fans!
Elizabeth Edmondson
The Golden Age of Detective Fiction Conference at the British Library 17th June 2017
Recreation of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Study
Historical Mystery Fiction
Historical Mystery Novels Set in Britain
Bruno Chief of Police
Suggested Reading – Bodies from the Library Conference 2016
Miscellaneous
Mystery Scene Magazine
Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine
Books to the Ceiling 
Leave a Reply