The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: mystery

  • Independent Women in Golden Age Mysteries: From Evil Under the Sun to Gaudy Night

    Agatha Christie’s Evil Under the Sun (1941) has a wonderful series of final revelations. Poirot untangles the various threads that have complicated his investigation of Arlena Stuart’s mystery, for a rapt audience of suspects and bystanders. While the crime was rather convoluted in its execution, the motives were straightforward. Then there are the last several…

  • Golden Age Women Writers: Josephine Tey and Dorothy L. Sayers

    Josephine Tey is best known for The Daughter of Time, which remains highly regarded. A temporarily invalided Scotland Yard detective sets his wits to solving the poignant murders of the little princes in the tower, way back in . . . 1483. A very cold case. In The New Yorker, Sara Polsky’s “The Detective Novel…

  • The Murderous Possibilities of Bathtubs, Showers, and Spas

    Bathtubs are disappearing. Not in a needs-to-be-investigated sort of way: they’re being routinely removed as hotels renovate (to enable faster and easier cleaning between guests), or not included in the first place in new condo and sometimes even single-family home design. The Death of the Bathtub is probably not a great murder mystery title. But…