The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Elephants Can Remember

    Publicity still from Elephants Can Remember, season 13 of Agatha Christie’s Poirot. David Suchet as Poirot; Zoë Wanamaker as crime writer Ariadne Oliver. “Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.” Agatha Christie, Elephants Can Remember I complained some months back that Agatha Christie’s Elephants Can Remember was unreadable.…

  • Bringing True Crime to the Stage: Marquita Lynn Walsh’s She Is Here

    Publicity poster for She Is Here by Marquita Lynn Walsh. Livestream tickets available for the April 25 performance. During the first two years of COVID, theatre companies across Canada provided innovative live-streamed productions, and it was a joy to be be able to watch a range of works from the comfort of home. Once the…

  • Mountain Thrillers and “Alpine Divorces”

    Cover image of Elinor M. Brent-Dyer’s The Mystery at the Chalet School, 1947. I’m working on a piece about crime fiction set in Canadian mountainous regions (mostly the Rockies), and that has me dipping into Alpine crime fiction from other nations, for comparison. But let’s start with the new-to-me phrase “alpine divorce.” This is not…