The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: mystery

  • 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…

  • Ghost Writers: Generative AI, Intellectual Property, and the Trope of the Hidden Author

    Grading concerns are converging with literary critical ones this weekend as I type less-than-patient messages to class members who wrote an analysis of an autobiographical sketch in which they misrepresent the topic, themes, events, and personages. Thanks, ChatGPT, for that hallucination. Very much appreciated. But intriguingly (one finds the silver lining), mystery fiction is also…