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Here you will find everything from reviews, calls for papers, articles, and any crime fiction related news. Our aim is to create a broad, diverse and well-connected community of crime-fiction researchers and a space to share any and all things crime fiction. If you are interested in disseminating your research through The Association Blog, please get in touch.

2020 Book Prize Runner Up:  Noir in the North: Gender, Politics, and Place

29/11/2021

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The second runner up to be reviewed by ​Dr. Linda Ledford-Miller is Stacy Gillis and Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir's edited collection, Noir in the North: Gender, Politics, and Place​ (2020). 

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Once again, we would like to congratulate all of the authors and editors of these outstanding volumes of crime fiction scholarship. 

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2020 Book Prize Runner Up: The Disabled Detective by Susannah B. Mintz

29/11/2021

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As promised at our online event in November, we will be reviewing both of the runners up of the 2020 ICFA Book Prize on our association blog. 

​First up, ​Susannah B. Mintz's The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction (2020) reviewed by ​Dr. Linda Ledford-Miller. 

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CFP: Global Histories of Crime Fiction: Redefining a Popular Genre

6/10/2021

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​Please find below a CFP for a seminar of the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, which will take place at National Taiwan Normal University.

Deadline: October 31, 2021
Conference:  15-18 June 2022

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Symposium: Crime Fiction and the Social Contract

22/9/2021

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The Monash Crime Fiction Project have organised a symposium titled 'Crime Fiction and the Social Contract' on Tuesday 28 September 2021 at 8-10pm Melbourne; 6-8am New York; 11am-1pm London. To register for this Zoom symposium, please click here.

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101 Years of Agatha Christie by Ffion Davies

15/9/2021

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She gave us intricate plots, red herrings, and iconic detectives in the form of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple—born on this day in 1890, Agatha Christie is credited with revolutionising the mystery genre. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) which celebrated its hundred and first birthday this year, was written after a bet with her sister Madge and inspired by the Belgium refugees in the wake of the first world war. Four years and six rejections later, the novel was published—earning her the meagre price of twenty-five pounds for her pains.

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Class over Crime? The Whodunit as a Vehicle for Class Criticism in Gosford Park (2001) by Wenke Röschmann

24/8/2021

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Though the plot revolves around a murder at a hunting weekend set in the British countryside, the aspect of the crime itself seems to move into the periphery of the narrative, allowing space for the actual central theme of the film: the many characters and their interclass relations. ​American director, Robert Altman, boldly claimed: “I don’t call it a whodunit so much as I call it a who cares whodunit” (Altman and Fellowes) when describing his film, Gosford Park (2001), which combines the genre of British heritage films with the classic whodunit narrative (Dalrymple 2). Indeed,  as viewers, we might sympathize with this quote when considering the critical social undercurrent of the narrative. 

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CFP: Special Issue on Cornell Woolrich and Transmedia Noir

28/7/2021

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Crime Fiction Studies is preparing a special issue on mystery writer Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968), with a focus on his significance to the transmedia formation of America’s noir imaginary in the 1940s and 1950s. Known to film studies primarily for penning the source story for Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Woolrich was in fact the most heavily adapted contemporary crime author of his era. Yet despite this, his legacy for film noir remains obscured by his literary confrères: Chandler, Hammett, and Cain.

Deadline for abstracts: 
September 1, 2021
Deadline for full drafts: July 1, 2022

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CFP: Lee Child Symposium at UEA

2/7/2021

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The University of East Anglia, UK, is proud to announce an international symposium dedicated to the writing of Lee Child, a key figure in contemporary crime fiction, and creator of the world-renowned Jack Reacher series. Childs will be at the conference himself to celebrate the unveiling of his archive and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Killing Floor. 
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Deadline for submissions: 1st September 2021
Conference: 1st April 2022 

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Review: Ian Rankin's Knots & Crosses (1987)

2/7/2021

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 Avid readers of Ian Rankin are of course very familiar with the hardened Inspector John Rebus who is not averse to relying on brawn over brain. I encountered Rebus for the first time however, in the sixth novel in the series, Mortal Causes (1994). Reading Mortal Causes before Knots & Crosses led me to believe that I knew what to expect from a Rankin novel, but the liberal lacing of Rebus’s vulnerabilities stemming from his career before he started in the police force took me by surprise. Indeed, Knots & Crosses is the first in a long line of Rebus investigations, so backstory is something of a prerequisite for the first novel. But it was quite refreshing to be shown a character who is evidently a successor of the hard-boiled tradition having his vulnerabilities portrayed so openly.

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Dorothy L. Sayers, on the Occasion of her 128th Birthday by Eric Sandberg

13/6/2021

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To celebrate the 128th Birthday of Dorothy L. Sayers, we've asked Dr. Eric Sandberg to give us a glimpse into the life and legacy of this prolific writer and critic, and her wider impact on one of the most fruitful periods in the history of crime fiction.

The next volume in the prestigious McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction series is now available for preorder. Dorothy L. Sayers: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Eric Sandberg (no. 11 in the series) looks at the life and work of the creator of sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg.

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