The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: travel

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…