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angelofboox

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Mar 09, 2009 16:47

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emmersonne March 9 2009, 20:41:03 UTC

How weird, I'd doing a module on crime fiction and thjose are two of the set texts!

Detective fiction was only developing around the time of those novels so it tends towards being a bit formulaic. Linda La Plante is fantastic though.

angelofboox March 9 2009, 20:47:14 UTC

That is a funny coincidence.

Yeah, I would guess that; Poe was really the start of modern detective fiction, wasn't he? I'm probably just spoilt by all the contemporary literature I read. Wish I got to read such stuff for my degree; I find non-fiction so tiresome... But I mostly just ignore my work and read on the side anyway, which is why I'm not doing an EngLit degree...much as I'd probably enjoy it.

emmersonne March 9 2009, 20:49:46 UTC

Poe and Conan Doyle really, then the "golden age" of detective fiction was the inter war period. (dunno about after that, we're only in week 5 ;)

angelofboox March 9 2009, 22:21:06 UTC

Do you have msn or something? You seem nice and I'm always glad to talk to new people and we have [some] stuff in common. But if that's too weird never mind :P

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cereswunderkind March 11 2009, 11:59:22 UTC

FW - who devours crime fiction - won't touch Agatha Christie.

angelofboox March 11 2009, 17:36:08 UTC

What reasons does she cite?

What does she think of Conan Doyle?

cereswunderkind March 11 2009, 18:53:41 UTC

I'll try to find out. I know she likes the Lord Peter Wimsy stories.