21st-Century Crime offering interviews, reviews of fiction, non-fiction
& classics re-issued, links for crime readers & writers

Rogue's Gallery: the early literature of crime online ~ outlaws, witches,
highwaymen, pirates, harlots; featured confessions

NEW FEATURE March 2008:  David Schmid, Serial Killer Non-Fiction

CRIMECULTURE ARTICLES

New in 2007

Life on Mars, or How the Breaking of Genre Rules Revitalises the Crime Fiction Tradition
CHRISTINE DOWNEY, Lancaster University

Broken Hallelujah: The Cultural Significance of American Hardboiled Fiction in Paperback, 1940-1955
MARGARET MERIÇLI, University of Pittsburgh

‘A drop of water from a stagnant pool’: Agatha Christie’s Parapractic Murders
DEWI LLYR EVANS, Cardiff University

An Exploration of the Relationship between Community and Capitalism in Black Crime Fiction
TIM LAWLOR, Lancaster University

Crimes of Conscience: Morality and Justice in Doyle and Christie
GARETH WATKINS, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

If you can get them to think: an ethical defence of crime fiction
ELLENORE CHAPMAN, Bolton University

The concept of identity in Without a Trace
SILKE GUENTHER, Lübeck, Germany

Click here for  EARLIER CRIMECULTURE ARTICLES, 2002-2006

PULP ORIGINALS     Classic crime novels for pulp fiction enthusiasts

THE LITERARY ART OF MURDER  Conference at Newcastle University:  4-6 April 2008