The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • TV’s Hudson & Rex: A Fan Campaign Brings Back the Leading Man

    Hudson & Rex is a fun Canadian television oddity: a crime-by-the-week series unabashedly set in St. John’s, Newfoundland that features the city’s landmarks and an array of gorgeous provincial settings as key elements. Mary Walsh has a recurring role as a former police archivist who ends up in prison, and then briefly manages a prison…

  • Violent Colonial Histories and the Limits of Reconciliation: Katherine Govier’s Between Men

    Katherine Govier’s Between Men Canadian literature has a fair number of internationally-acclaimed women writers, including in crime fiction. I’m puzzled that Katherine Govier’s work is not more famous, and I think she should be counted in the company of Atwood, Laurence, Gallant, and Munro, although she’s about a decade younger than Atwood. While her first…

  • 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…