Detective Fiction

For him she is sex-absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is the incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential.

"In detective stories, virtue is always triumphant. They're the purest literature we have." -- Lord Peter Wimsey in Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

A candid look into gender roles in hard-boiled detective fiction, this introduction to the series that will feature Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler and Walter Mosley.

Although we tend to stick to only a few genres when it comes to literary analysis, attempting the difficult matter of analyzing mystery stories or detective fiction can be very rewarding.

Before the world was treated to the many 'flavors' presented by motion pictures, people had other brilliant ideas to entertain themselves. They exercised their imaginations through reading all sorts of books and related forms of written literature.

A critical look at the origin of hard-boiled detective fiction, the pulp magazines.

A short review of a Japanese female writer of recent detection fiction. Natsuo Kirino is a writer of such novels as Out, Grotesque and Real World.

A listing of the five most engaging roughneck sidekick characters in private eye fiction.

Castle, which stars Nathan Fillion as rich and famous crime fiction writer Richard Castle whose new gig is with the NYPD, is a lighthearted, witty, and entertaining show on ABC.

Some interesting facts concerning fiction and the Pinkertons.

Although reading can be very entertaining and rewarding, often we miss many things if we do not properly read and understand the introduction to a novel.