The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: movies

  • 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…

  • Dial M for Murder: From Grace Kelly to a Lesbian Update

    Grace Kelly as Margot and Anthony Dawson as her would-be killer; a still from the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film. Earlier in February I spent several days in Vancouver conducting interviews and doing background research for two features that I’m hoping to finish up over the next few months. One is on the play’s director, the…