Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Crime Fiction Festivals: A Few Thoughts
A brief post, today, because deadlines are looming for three writing projects and two reviewing tasks. But I’m also planning a trip, and working out how to be in Stirling for Bloody Scotland in the middle of September. As with most large events held in small-ish cities, finding accommodation is the tricky part, so I’m…
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Harold Pinter’s Silences and David Lodge’s Voluble Academics
Does Harold Pinter’s Old Times deal with a murder? Or perhaps two? Does it describe a long fantasy, or perhaps a delusion, played out in the mind of an unstable woman who killed her friend two decades earlier? That’s one of the more intriguing explanations I’ve been reading for the enigmatic play, with its famously…
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Independent Women in Golden Age Mysteries: From Evil Under the Sun to Gaudy Night
Agatha Christie’s Evil Under the Sun (1941) has a wonderful series of final revelations. Poirot untangles the various threads that have complicated his investigation of Arlena Stuart’s mystery, for a rapt audience of suspects and bystanders. While the crime was rather convoluted in its execution, the motives were straightforward. Then there are the last several…
