The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • When Authors Tire of Their Characters (But Can’t Just Kill Them Off)

    Holmes and Moriarty, 1893 illustration by Harry C. Edwards in McClure’s I’ve been enjoying Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes in “The Final Problem.” That’s the one, you’ll recall, based on the famous story where Holmes is tossed over Switzerland’s Reichanbach Falls by Moriarty, his arch-nemesis. Watson is left to re-trace his steps and mourn his…

  • Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontë’s Unrequited Passion

    “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you–haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe–I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always–take any form–drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!…

  • “I’m no Captain Wentworth”: P.D. James’s Dalgliesh in Love

    The Murder Room is one of my favourite P.D. James mysteries, although many other readers are less rapturous. Kirkus Reviews complained about “a plot less ineluctable than her best” but praises the intriguing cast of characters and–as always in James–the extraordinary sense of place. The novel is set largely at the Dupayne Museum, which explores…