The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch

  • Agatha Christie in Canada

    I didn’t recall that Agatha Christie had visited Canada, including Victoria, in 1922. She was travelling in the company of her faithless first husband, Archie. The second spouse, Max Mallowan, sounds much nicer though his archaeological expeditions were expensive to finance. At the time of her Canadian tour, Christie had produced only two novels: The…

  • Louise Penny’s A World of Curiosities, Donna Decker’s Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, and the Fictional Portrayal of the Montreal Massacre

    Louise Penny’s A World of Curiosities, Donna Decker’s Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, and the Fictional Portrayal of the Montreal Massacre

    This week, a fellow seeking to be the next Prime Minister of Canada had to apologize to Nathalie Provost. A survivor of the Montreal Massacre, she has been a vocal advocate for gun control and is running for the federal Liberal party. Great non-partisan news! However, Mark Carney referred to the site of the violence…

  • Raymond Chandler Evening

    Last night was stormy, with rare rumbles of thunder and flashes of lightning. Appropriately, I was listening to “Raymond Chandler Evening” in a live-stream concert by Robyn Hitchcock: It’s a Raymond Chandler EveningAnd the pavements are all wetAnd I’m lurking in the shadows‘Cause it hasn’t happened yet That took me to the BBC radio adaptations…