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The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators | Martin Edwards
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In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators traces the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the worlds most popular form of fiction.
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Amie
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Jasper the cat is taking a break from his life of crime to pose for a picture 😸

I read most of this, but skipped some parts that didn't interest me. Attempts to provide some diversity, but still mainly British/American/European writers covered.

dabbe Hello there, Joyous Jasper! 🖤🐾🖤 6mo
kspenmoll 😻 6mo
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2023 Edgar Award winners have been announced! Very happy that Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse won the Best Fact Crime category. That was one of my favorite reads last year. Also enjoyed Notes on an Execution which won for Best Novel. Very interested in tagged which won Best Critical/Biographical. See link in comments for the full list.

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I found this 700+ page survey of crime fiction while at the library late last week. From William Godwin to P.D. James this looks like an engaging and intriguing history of crime fiction, in an informed & accessible style

vivastory This is the book I mentioned @LeahBergen 14mo
LeahBergen This one sounds fascinating! Martin Edwards is the series consultant for the British Library Crime Classics (as I‘m sure you know) and I just started one this evening (and he wrote the introduction for it). He‘s also the current president of the Detection Club, which is pretty cool! 14mo
vivastory @LeahBergen Which one did you start? I started Simeon's Dirty Snow yesterday. I'm only 40 pages into it so far but I'm really loving it. The atmosphere is so bleak and memorable. 14mo
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LeahBergen The Colour of Murder by Julian Symons (I just tagged you in my post). I‘ve never read Simenon and keep meaning to get to one of his! 14mo
vivastory @LeahBergen This will be the second that I have read. Neither one is a Maigret, but I greatly enjoy them. They feel like Camus writing a noir novel. He's fantastic with atmosphere the way that Highsmith is. 14mo
batsy This looks great! 14mo
vivastory @batsy It definitely looks like something that you'd like!! 14mo
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