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April | 2016 | Sleuths & Spies
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The Passion of the Christie: The Mysterious Mr. Quin’s Theatre of Crime. April 25, 2016. April 25, 2016. Contemporary readers will almost certainly equate the harlequin with either the lurid covers of the ubiquitous romance series or the mischievous comic book counterpart to the Joker. The character, however, has a storied history rooted in the theatrical traditions of medieval passion plays and the Italian. The Mysterious Mr. Quin. Christie’s cryptic Harley Quin is far from the clown portrayed in. When ...
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Speakers of the Dead resurrects Walt Whitman’s humanist spirit | Sleuths & Spies
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Speakers of the Dead resurrects Walt Whitman’s humanist spirit. May 9, 2016. May 9, 2016. Set against a backdrop of murder, grave robbing, and civic corruption in 1843 New York, J. Aaron Sanders’s debut novel,. Speakers of the Dead. Creates an alternate history in which death is the catalyst that transforms Walt Whitman from a struggling journalist and mediocre writer into the preeminent poet of American life. Editor, Henry Saunders, as crucial to both character and plot development, Sanders voices the s...
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On Shining Girls and Lonely Places. June 21, 2016. The psychoses fomented by rigid constructions of masculinity are the topic of many serial killer narratives. Yet novels such as Thomas Harris’s. The Silence of the Lambs. Both updates and expands the themes of Dorothy B. Hughes’s. In a Lonely Place. 1947), the groundbreaking psychological thriller that introduced the serial killer plot as a vehicle for addressing the misogynistic suppression of female agency. The two books diverge, of course, in that.
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The Passion of the Christie: The Mysterious Mr. Quin’s Theatre of Crime | Sleuths & Spies
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The Passion of the Christie: The Mysterious Mr. Quin’s Theatre of Crime. April 25, 2016. April 25, 2016. Contemporary readers will almost certainly equate the harlequin with either the lurid covers of the ubiquitous romance series or the mischievous comic book counterpart to the Joker. The character, however, has a storied history rooted in the theatrical traditions of medieval passion plays and the Italian. The Mysterious Mr. Quin. Christie’s cryptic Harley Quin is far from the clown portrayed in. Gold ...
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June | 2016 | Sleuths & Spies
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On Shining Girls and Lonely Places. June 21, 2016. The psychoses fomented by rigid constructions of masculinity are the topic of many serial killer narratives. Yet novels such as Thomas Harris’s. The Silence of the Lambs. Both updates and expands the themes of Dorothy B. Hughes’s. In a Lonely Place. 1947), the groundbreaking psychological thriller that introduced the serial killer plot as a vehicle for addressing the misogynistic suppression of female agency. The two books diverge, of course, in that.
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The devil of Pig Island is in the details | Sleuths & Spies
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The devil of Pig Island is in the details. May 23, 2016. May 23, 2016. Do not be fooled by. S unappealing title. The very banality of the name is an act of deceit, an inverse glamour that conceals a novel fixated on illusion, both in physical ugliness and false pretenses. Yet, with its allusions to both. The Island of Dr. Moreau. The title is also a conceit, an elaborate metaphor in which Mo Hayder marks. As an extension of these transformation narratives. 352 pages; Grove Press, 2015 reissue. The Ironic...
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A Secret History: Learning the Past from Spy Fiction. Posted on Book Riot. Ten Must Read Macabre Mysteries. Posted on The Strand Magazine Blog. View Cheyenne Comer’s profile on Facebook. View sleuthsandspies’s profile on Twitter. View sleuthsandspies’s profile on Instagram. On Shining Girls and Lonely Places. The Singer from Memphis covers ancient espionage. The Victorian ghost story matures in The Grownup. The devil of Pig Island is in the details. The Ironic Neo-Noir of Niceville’s Resident Evil.
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On Shining Girls and Lonely Places | Sleuths & Spies
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On Shining Girls and Lonely Places. June 21, 2016. The psychoses fomented by rigid constructions of masculinity are the topic of many serial killer narratives. Yet novels such as Thomas Harris’s. The Silence of the Lambs. Both updates and expands the themes of Dorothy B. Hughes’s. In a Lonely Place. 1947), the groundbreaking psychological thriller that introduced the serial killer plot as a vehicle for addressing the misogynistic suppression of female agency. The two books diverge, of course, in that.
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The Victorian ghost story matures in “The Grownup” | Sleuths & Spies
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The Victorian ghost story matures in The Grownup. May 30, 2016. May 30, 2016. With its allusions to Wilkie Collins, Henry James, and Daphne du Maurier, Gillian Flynn’s short story “ The Grownup. 8221; weaves a rich intertextuality of 19th-century Gothic tales. In its sharp focus on the trappings of economics, though, Flynn’s incarnation of the ghost story closely aligns with a different style of terror, that of Franz Kafka’s. Originally published in George R. R. Martin’s. Posted in Book Review. On Shinin...
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