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Punctuating Crime Fiction: a Comparison of 6886 Titles

 (Total number  of titles with exclamation marks, by series) The following pie charts represent the  varied use of three types of punctuation signs in the titles of  all the novels published in the...

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International Detective Fiction (1927-1966): The Authors

1/ Mignon Good Eberhart (USA, 1899- 1996) Crime Fiction is an international genre. It is well-known that several countries have collaborated to its invention. Exchanges  and reciprocal influences...

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Translating Crime Fiction between the Wars

(French Translators for Le Masque Series : click to enlarge) Studying Crime Fiction Series in their cohesion and complexity, rather than works and authors for their originality, presents a radical...

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Crime Fiction in Ullstein Pocket Books

Created in the early 1950’s, the series of mass market paperback books Ullstein-Büchern,  started  in the mid 1950’s to offer a  subdivision devoted to Crime Fiction, the Ullstein-Bücher...

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A Wordcloud History of early Crime Fiction

  (click to enlarge) Edgar Allan POE (1809-1849)  The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Graham’s Magazine, Philadelphia, 1841) Total of 13,724 words and 2,847 unique words. Most frequent words in the corpus:...

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London Symposium: A Twitter Photo-story

Filed under: AHRC, Big Data, conference, Data Visualisation, Events

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Maps of Contempt

(Click to enlarge) Edgar Allan Poe (1 occurrence) Le Monde ‘s Data Visualisation team (Luc Bronner & Maxime Vaudano)  have produced a fascinating and revealing interactive map of French Schools...

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What is San-Antonio all about ?

(Click to enlarge) Does the  word cloud above  provide an answer to the question asked in the title of this post ? And is that of any use to anyone?  The cloud  is based on the titles from the 175...

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Visualising generic changes: San-Antonio in the Special Police and...

 San-Antonio in the Spécial Police Series (1950-1972, 79 titles) (Click to enlarge) San-Antonio Series (1972-1999, 96 Titles) (Click to enlarge) The San-Antonio series’s longevity is exceptional....

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Semantics of murder: A look at the titles of the 66 novels by Agatha Christie

Murder, Death, and Mystery… Well, who would have guessed ?  Here is the  count of the top six words used in the  titles of  the 66 mystery novels by Agatha Christie, between 1920 and 1976 It is...

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French Authors in the Série Noire

Few Crime series, if any, have developed such mystique as the French Série Noire, launched  72 years ago by former surrealist Marcel Duhamel for the éditions Gallimard. While ostensibly dedicated to...

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DETECt – Horizon 2020

The International Crime Fiction Research Group is delighted to share the good news about the European funding secured for our project “DETECt -Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime...

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Digital Tools and Methods to study European Popular Culture

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Agatha Christie : One hundred years of confinement

by Sebastian Beck & Dominique Jeannerod Exactly a 100 years ago, on the 21st January 1921, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the first novel by Agatha Christie was published in the UK. It had been...

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