A most remarkable year in many respects, 1968 also saw the first book by an American writer to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel in nearly ten years. Donald Westlake's God Save the Mark prevailed over candidates as strong as Dick Francis's Flying Finish and - an unique occurrence in the award's history - two … Lire la suite The Lost Art of Entertaining Crime Fiction, Contn’d
Margery Allingham is a writer with whom I've had a complicated relationship over the years. My first encounter with her and Mr. Campion was the short story On Christmas Day in the Morning which I loved and still regard as one of the finest pieces of short mystery fiction ever written. It looked like I … Lire la suite Albert Returns
There was a time when crime fiction was easily recognizable to the average reader. It had lurid titles with "Crime", "Murder" or "Corpse" in them, even more lurid covers with scantily clad young women in jeopardy, and to make sure even the dumbest ones got the memo publishers added "A Mystery" under the title. Things … Lire la suite About an Oxymoron
Popular wisdom has Golden Age, the whodunit genre and Agatha Christie inextricably linked. The First Lady of Crime, as the nickname indicates, is often seen as the epitome of the period and the genre, and the go-to author if you want a taste of both. This opinion is shared by her fans as well as … Lire la suite A Marginal Writer Called Agatha
Roman d'énigme et Agatha Christie sont inextricablement mêlés dans l'inconscient collectif, la bonne dame de Torquay étant considérée comme l'épitomé du genre, un auteur dont la seule lecture suffirait presque à faire le tour de celui-ci. On a d'ailleurs l'impression que c'est le cas pour beaucoup, aussi bien parmi les fans que parmi les détracteurs. … Lire la suite Agatha ou le miroir aux alouettes
Il y a quelque chose qui ne va pas dans ce pays - enfin, une chose de plus. Quand The Magpie Murders de Anthony Horowitz est sorti outre-Manche il y a deux ans, il a immédiatement été salué comme une réussite majeure par la presse quasi-unanime, et les nominations et récompenses n'ont pas tardé … Lire la suite Billet d’humeur
"From the first page to the last, this story is pervaded by the atmosphere of horror and suspense that invariably marks the work of Mignon G. Eberhart. A murder, to her, is something more than a mere crime puzzle to be worked out for the entertainment of the reader. It is a tragic event which … Lire la suite All Good Things…
