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...
View ArticleInternational 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...
View ArticleTranslating 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...
View ArticleCrime 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...
View ArticleA 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:...
View ArticleLondon Symposium: A Twitter Photo-story
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View ArticleMaps 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleVisualising 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....
View ArticleSemantics 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...
View ArticleFrench 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...
View ArticleDETECt – 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...
View ArticleAgatha 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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