Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...

This course aims to be an enjoyable exploration of detective and crime fiction. Each year, we pick a different theme and gather together experts from across the University to explore a range of novels ...

This course will investigate forms of detective fiction- and discourses of mystery and crime more broadly-in literature, cinema and other media. We will rethink their development form the ...

mystery and detective fiction comes in every imaginable variety. In this course we will look at the origins of the genre in the 19th century and then trace some of its developments in the 20th century ...

Sent to Los Angeles to teach meditation, he winds up briefly joining the LAPD and then working on ... says Buddhist Fiction Blog. Martin Edwards is a crime novelist who has received the Crime ...