The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: fiction

  • 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…

  • The Sylvia Hotel and Vancouver Writers

    “The Americans have a new war that’s how we know the generations have changed.” – George Fetherling, “First Signs of Wartime Spring,” The Sylvia Hotel Poems The Sylvia Hotel is a venerable institution, and this is my first visit. I was curious about whether the Sylvia had made it into any crime fiction. My research…

  • Marsha Mildon’s Cal Meredith Books

    A puzzle: during the 1990s, two terrific authors of lesbian private investigator series emerged from the bucolic but small city of Victoria, British Columbia. Both had American publishers, and I’ve described previously how Lauren Wright Douglas was part of the sprawling genre fiction output of Naiad Press, based in Florida. Marsha Mildon‘s two books in…