Warning: The following contains some opinion stated as fact, which doesn’t mean it isn’t open to reasonable discussion. The good thing about classics, the very thing that made them classics in the first place, is that you can come back to them again and again, always to find something new or that eluded you on … Lire la suite Sunday Thoughts – The Egyptian Edition
By Popular Request
When discussing Great Detectives we're often prone to forget that many if not most of them weren't meant to become the stuff of legend - heck, they weren't even meant to be series characters to start with. Only popular success or the promise of it allowed them to survive the single book or story they … Lire la suite By Popular Request
Le Genre enchaîné
De tout temps la tentation a été très forte pour celui qui écrit de se prendre pour Dieu. Plus que tous les autres arts, la littérature met en effet la création à la portée de tous. Aucune autre formation n'est requise que de savoir écrire. Le budget est très raisonnable lui aussi, puisqu'on peut se … Lire la suite Le Genre enchaîné
In Praise of… Gothic Romances
I like gothic romances and I cannot lie. I may well be forfeiting what little credibility I've ever had by saying that, but it is the truth. Gothics have been part of my reading diet for as long as I can remember, much to the surprise of both my friends and myself as, let's face … Lire la suite In Praise of… Gothic Romances
Sunday Thoughts – Carr again
Warning: The following contains some opinion stated as fact, which doesn’t mean it isn’t open to reasonable discussion. Curtis Evans on Carr's In Spite of Thunder: Like a lot of later Carr novels, there's the germ for a terrific short story. The problem comes from Carr's effort to build a full-length novel around it. This … Lire la suite Sunday Thoughts – Carr again
Sunday Thoughts
Warning: The following contains some opinion stated as fact, which doesn’t mean it isn’t open to reasonable discussion. Agatha Christie's short fiction is often overlooked, overshadowed that it is by the many classic novels she wrote, and she rarely is cited as one of the masters of the form - rather unfairly in my opinion. … Lire la suite Sunday Thoughts
Ask the Right Questions
For all the talk about its upcoming demise or unlikely resurrection, the Whodunit is actually alive and well, and has been for the better part of the mystery genre's history. What I just said may seem counter-intuitive at best but makes sense if you regard Whodunit not as a genre, but as a template. Most … Lire la suite Ask the Right Questions
