The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: canada

  • 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…

  • Canadian Patriotism and Crime Fiction

    Twenty years ago, I was teaching Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto. I would screen Molson’s “I Am Canadian” during a class early in the term when we were talking about Canadian cultural nationalism. The goal was to contrast the muted expression of Canadian patriotism with a more jingoistic American approach, and then link…