NOT RUNNING 2024-25.

IF YOU TOOK THE MODULE 2022-23 and need information for re-sits then please click on the corresponding tab above for assessment information.

Information below pertains to 2023-24.

Please note that it will be IMPERATIVE for you to try and do some reading over the summer or you will struggle during the first few weeks as the first texts are heavy and long.

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Overview

This module will help the students reach an understanding of the central importance of the practices and discourses of crime, law, order and policing to the formation of British national and imperial power/identities from 1850-1947 alongside the development of the Crime Fiction genre in Britain. By focusing on a number of popular narratives of crime, the module will invite an analysis of how they both affirmed and subverted the circuits of British national (ist) and imperial (ist) power, via ideas such as "detective hero and models of masculinity", the "female detective and gender ideologies", sidekicks and narrative perspective, techniques of secret and suspense, material clues, villainy, class hierarchies, racial and ethnic Othering, pseudo-sciences and forensic developments, and more. Students will be introduced to a range of primary, critical and historical/archival materials. They will have to analyze and assess theories and narratives of nation, empire, class, ethnicity to trace the traffic between literature, law and power at specific historical moments in British and world history.

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge of selected texts and concepts relating to contemporary literary
  and cultural production;
• Deploy advanced analytical and critical skills through close reading/viewing of the set texts;
• Demonstrate a conceptual understanding that enables the development and sustaining of a critical argument;
• Describe and critically evaluate recent research and/or scholarship in subject;
• Demonstrate a critical consideration of the development of a genre in light of national and Imperialist narratives
  of crime.

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Full syllabus 2023-24

UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE, ALL PRIMARY AND SECONDARY READING IN THE SYLLABUS is REQUIRED. Further reading is listed bottom of webpage/ talisaspire.

TERM 1

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TERM 2

OPTIONAL EXAMPLES OF FURTHER PRIMARY TEXTS

• Austin Freeman’s Dr. Thorndyke: “The Anthropologist at Large” in McClure’s Magazine, vo.35, no.1 (May 1910), pp.57-67.
• Arthur Morrison’s Martin Hewitt: “The Case of the Dixon TorpedoLink opens in a new window” (The Strand, June 1894), pp.562-574.
• Pirkis, “The Ghost of a Fountain” illustrated by Bernard Higham, The Ludgate Monthly(July 1893).
• You can read more of the Flaxman Low in the collected edition Ghosts Being the Experiences of Flaxman Low (London, C. Arthur Pearson, 1899).

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Further Reading Recommendations

SEE TALIS ASPIRE PLUS:

Bleak House / Mid-Victorian Detection

Cohn, Elisha. "Suspending Detection: Collins, Dickens, and the Will to Know." Dickens Studies Annual (2015): 253-276.

Frank, Lawrence. Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence: the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. Springer, 2003.

Humpherys, Anne. "British Detective Fiction in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. 2017.

McBratney, John. "“What Connexion Can There Be?”: Secrecy and Detection in Dickens's Bleak House." Victorian Secrecy. Routledge, 2016. 59-73.

Pendleton, Robert W. "The Detective's Languishing Forefinger: Narrative Guides in" Bleak House" and" Little Dorrit"(Part I)." Dickens quarterly 7.3 (1990): 312-320.

Pritchard, Allan. "The Urban Gothic of Bleak House." Nineteenth-Century Literature 45.4 (1991): 432-452.

Thoms, Peter. Detection & Its Designs: Narrative & Power in 19th-Century Detective Fiction. Ohio University Press, 1998.

Thoms, Peter. "" The Narrow Track of Blood": Detection and Storytelling in Bleak House." Nineteenth-century literature 50.2 (1995): 147-167.

Trodd, Anthea. "The Policeman and the Lady: Significant Encounters in Mid-Victorian Fiction." Victorian Studies 27.4 (1984): 435-460.

Whiteley, Giles. "Tigers, Criminals, Rogues: Animality in Dickens’ Detective Fiction." Animals in Detective Fiction. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. 27-45.

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Lady Audley's Secret / Sensation Fiction

Badowska, Eva. “On the Track of Things: Sensation and Modernity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 37, no. 1, 2009, pp. 157–175., doi:10.1017/S106015030909010X.

Bauer, Gero. Houses, Secrets, and the Closet: Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James. Transcript Verlag, 2016.

Boyd, Nolan. "Queercrip Temporality and the Representation of Disability in Lady Audley's Secret." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 12 no. 4, 2018, p. 407-422.

Forman, Ross G. "Queer sensation." A Companion to Sensation Fiction, edited by Pamela K.Gilbert, Cambridge, 2011: 414-29.

Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason [1961], trans. Richard Howard. Taylor & Francis, 2006.

Grass, Sean. “Lady Audley’s Portrait: Textuality, Gender, and Power.” The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative: Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 105–125.

Hachaichi, Ihsen. "" There is sex in mind": scientific determinism and the woman question in Lady Audley's Secret." Brno Studies in English, vol.38, no.1 (2012): 87-102.

Haugtvedt, Erica. “The Sympathy of Suspense: Gaskell and Braddon’s Slow and Fast Sensation Fiction in Family Magazines.” Victorian Periodicals Review 49, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 149–70

Heinrichs, Rachel. “Critical Masculinities in Lady Audley's Secret.” Victorian Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 103–120. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27793628.

Jacob, Priyanka Anne. "The Pocket-book and the Pigeon-hole: Lady Audley's Secret and the Files of Victorian Fiction." Victorian Studies61.3 (2019): 371-394.

Kungl, Carla T. "The Secret of My Mother’s Madness”: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Gothic Instability." Demons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature(2010): 170-180.

Kushnier, Jennifer S. “Educating Boys To Be Queer: Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 30, no. 1, 2002, pp. 61–75., doi:10.1017/S1060150302301049.

McAleavey, Maia. "Colonial return: Pendennis and Lady Audley’s Secret." The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel. Vol. 100. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Leighton, Mary Elizabeth, and Lisa Surridge. “Illustrating the Sensation Novel.” The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction, edited by Andrew Mangham, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 34–51.

Luckhurst, Roger. "Gothic Colonies, 1850–1920." The Gothic World, edited by Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend. Routledge, 2014, pp.62-71.

O'Malley, Patrick R. “Domestic Gothic: Unveiling Lady Audley's Secret.” Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 103–129.

Martin, Daniel. "Railway Fatigue and the Coming-of-Age Narrative in" Lady Audley's Secret"." Victorian Review34.1 (2008): 131-153.

Pedlar, Valerie. 'The Most Dreadful Visitation': Male Madness in Victorian Fiction. Liverpool University Press, 2006.

Schroeder, Natalie. "Feminine sensationalism, eroticism, and self-assertion: ME Braddon and Ouida." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature7.1 (1988): 87-103.

Sims, Rachel A. "Insanity and the Doppelgänger in Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret." Schizo: The Liberatory Potential of Madness, edited by Irina Lyubchenko and Fiona Ann Papps, Brill, 2015. 135-144.

Sparks, Tabitha. "To the Mad-House Born: The Ethics of Exteriority in Lady Audley’s Secret." New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Brill Rodopi, 2012. 17-35.

Showalter, Elaine. "Desperate Remedies-sensation Novels of the 1860s." Victorian Newsletter49 (1976): 1-5.

Yang S.R., Healey K. (eds.) “Introduction: Haunted Landscapes and Fearful Spaces—Expanding Views on the Geography of the Gothic”. Gothic Landscapes. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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The Moonstone

 The Moonstone Review

You may wish to read the introduction to this 1944 edition of The Moonstone written by Dorothy L. Sayers whom we study in Term 2 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.202518/page/n3/mode/2up 

Anderman, Elizabeth. "Serialization, Illustration, and the Art of Sensation." Victorian Periodicals Review 52.1 (2019): 27-56.

DeLamotte, Eugenia. "White Terror, Black Dreams: Gothic Constructions of Race in the Nineteenth Century." The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination, edited by Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Douglas L. Howard. McFarland, 2004. pp. 17-31.

Duncan, Ian. "'The Moonstone,' the Victorian novel, and imperialist panic." Modern Language Quarterly 55.3 (1994): 297-320.

Free, Melissa. "" Dirty linen": legacies of empire in Wilkie Collins's the Moonstone." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48.4 (2006): 340-371.

Gruner, Elisabeth Rose. "Family Secrets and the Mysteries of The Moonstone." Victorian literature and culture 21 (1993): 127.

Martha Stoddard Holmes and Mark Mossman. "Disability in Victorian Sensation Fiction." A Companion to Sensation Fiction (2011): 493-506.

Manavalli, Krishna. "Collins, Colonial Crime, and the Brahmin Sublime: The Orientalist Vision of a Hindu-Brahmin India in The Moonstone." Comparative Critical Studies 4.1 (2007): 67-86.

Mossman, Mark. "Representations of the Abnormal Body in the Moonstone." Victorian Literature and Culture 37.2 (2009): 483-500.

Nayder, Lillian. "Robinson Crusoe and Friday in Victorian Britain:" Discipline,"" Dialogue," and Collins's Critique of Empire in" The Moonstone"." Dickens Studies Annual 21 (1992): 213-231.

Roberts, Lewis. "THE" SHIVERING SANDS" OF REALITY: NARRATION AND KNOWLEDGE IN WILKIE COLLINS'THE MOONSTONE." Victorian Review (1997): 168-183.

Roy, Ashish. "The Fabulous Imperialist Semiotic of Wilkie Collin's The Moonstone." New Literary History 24.3 (1993): 657-681.

Taylor, Jenny Bourne. In the Secret Theatre of Home: Wilkie Collins, sensation narrative, and nineteenth-century psychology. Victorian Secrets, 1988.

Wagner, Tamara S. "Ominous Signs or False Clues? Difference and Deformity in Wilkie Collins’s Sensation Novels." Demons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature (2010): 47-60.

Zieger, Susan. "Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco: The Substances of Memory in The Moonstone." A Companion to Sensation Fiction (2011): 208-219.

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Sherlock and other male/female detectives late c19th/early c20th

Allan, Janice M., and Christopher Pittard, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Barsham, Diana. Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity. Routledge, 2016.

Bredesen, Dagni. "Investigating the Female Detective in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction." Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 3.1 (2007).

Brantlinger, Patrick. "Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914." English literature in transition, 1880-1920 28.3 (1985): 243-252.

Clarke, Clare. Late-Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Downes, Daragh. "Sheer Luck, Holmes? Clues Towards Canon Formation in Victorian Detective Fiction." Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2016. 105-123.

Gracia, Dominique. "Back to bodies: female detectives and bodily tools and tells in Victorian detective fiction." Victorian Popular Fictions 2.1 (2020): 56-68

Hendrey-Seabrook, Therie. "Reclassifying the Female Detective of the fin de siècle: Loveday Brooke, Vocation, and Vocality." Clues 26.1 (2007): 75.

Jann, Rosemary. "Sherlock Holmes codes the social body." ELH 57.3 (1990): 685-708.

Kestner, Joseph A., Sherlock's Sisters : The British Female Detective, 1864-1913, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017

McClintock, Anne. Imperial leather: Race, gender, and sexuality in the colonial contest. Routledge, 2013.

Moretti, Franco. "The slaughterhouse of literature." MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 61.1 (2000): 207-227.

Sekula, Allan. “The Body and The Archive" October, 39 (1986): 3-64.

Sussex, Lucy. Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre. Springer, 2010.

Thomas, Ronald R. Detective fiction and the rise of forensic science. Vol. 26. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Thoms, Peter. Detection & Its Designs: Narrative & Power in 19th-century Detective Fiction. Ohio University Press, 1998.

Waltraud, Ernst. "European Madness and Gender in Nineteenth-century British India." Social History of Medicine 9.3 (1996): 357-382.

Young, Arlene. "" Petticoated police": Propriety and the Lady Detective in Victorian Fiction." Clues 26.3 (2008): 15.

Young, Suzanne. "The Simple Art of Detection: The Female Detective in Victorian and Contemporary Mystery Novels." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 47.2 (2001): 448-457.

Dauncey, Sarah. “Crime, Forensics, and Modern SciencLink opens in a new windowe”, A Companion to Crime Fiction, ed. Charles J. Rzepkaand Lee Horsley (Blackwell, 2010) 164-175.

Glover, David, ‘The Writers Who Knew Too Much: Populism and Paradox in Detective Fiction’s Golden Age’, in The Art of Detective Fiction, ed. by Warren Chernaik and Robert Vilain (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 36–49.

Knight, Stephen, Crime Fiction 1800–2000: Detection, Death, Diversity(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

Miller, R. The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle. London: Pimlico. 2009.

Scarlett EP. The Doctor in Detective Fiction With an Expanded Note on Dr. John Thorndyke. Arch Intern Med.1966;118(2):180–186. doi:10.1001/archinte.1966.00290140084019

Vranken, Thomas. ""Look at this Map": Arthur Conan Doyle's use of Diegetic Illustrations in the Return of Sherlock Holmes." Clues, vol. 35, no. 1, 2017, pp. 29-39.

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Chesterton

Ascari, Maurizio. A Counter-History of Crime Fiction. Crime Files Series. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Blackwell, Laird R. The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction. McFarland, 2018

Blyth, Caroline, and Alison Jack, eds. The Bible in crime fiction and drama: murderous texts. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Chesterton, G. K.. The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown. Ed. Martin Gardner. Dover Publications, 1998.

• Clausson, Nils. "Literary Detection as Political Subversion: The Invisibility of Class in G. K. Chesterton's the Invisible Man." Clues (Bowling Green, Ohio), vol. 25, no. 4, 2007, pp. 5-16.

Cook, Michael. Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction: The Locked Room Mystery. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Jack, Alison. “Tartan Noir and Sacred Scripture: The Bible as Artefact and Metanarrative in Peter May’s Lewis Trilogy”, The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama: Murderous Texts. Ed. Alison Jack and Caroline Blyth. Bloomsbury, 2019, pp.29-40.

Hansen, Kim Toft. “Unknowable: Detecting Metaphysics and Religion in Crime Fiction." Detecting Detection: International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot. Bloomsbury, 2012,139 - 168.

Merivale and Sweeney, “The Game’s Afoot: On the Trail of the Metaphysical Detective Story” in Detecting Texts : The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism, edited by Patricia Merivale, and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 

Paul, Robert S. Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes: Detective Fiction, Popular Theology, and Society. Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

Stapleton, Julia. Christianity, Patriotism, and Nationhood : The England of G.K. Chesterton, Lexington Books, 2009. 

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Christie and Golden Age

Primary essays defending detective fiction https://archive.org/details/artofmysterystor0000hayc/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater 

Bernthal Jamie.C. Queering Agatha Christie. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1007/978-3-319-33533-9_1

Baučeková, Silvia. "The Flavour of Murder: Food and Crime in the Novels of Agatha Christie." Prague Journal of English Studies 3.1 (2014): 35-46.

“Mapping Murder.” Reading and Mapping Fiction: Spatialising the Literary Text, by Sally Bushell, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020, pp. 127–163.

Close, Glen S. Female Corpses in Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Dunant Sarah. “Body Language: A Study of Death and Gender in Crime Fiction” in The Art of Detective Fiction edited by Warren Chernaik, Martin Swales, Robert Vilain. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, pp.10-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62768-4_2

Hinds, Hilary. ‘Ordinary Disappointments: Femininity, Domesticity, and Nation in British Middlebrow Fiction, 1920-1944’, Modern Fiction Studies, vol.55, no.2 (2009) pp. 293-320.

Hoffman, Megan. Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Lassner, Phyllis. Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire. Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Lyth Peter. “Carry On up the Nile: The Tourist Gaze and the British Experience of Egypt, 1818–1932”, in The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1. Britain and the World, edited by Martin Farr, Xavier Guégan. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304155_10

• Mills, Rebecca, and J. C. Bernthal. (eds.) Agatha Christie Goes to War. Routledge, Milton, 2019, doi:10.4324/9780367855185.

Mezei, Kathy. "Spinsters, Surveillance, and Speech: The Case of Miss Marple, Miss Mole, and Miss Jekyll." Journal of Modern Literature 30.2 (2007): 103-120.

Munt, Sally R. Murder by the Book? Feminism and the Crime Novel. Routledge, 1994.

Peach Linden. Masquerade, Crime and Fiction. Crime Files Series. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Pyrhönen, Heta. Mayhem and Murder: Narrative and Moral Issues in the Detective Story Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.3138/9781442677128

Rolls, Alistair. "An Age of Contradiction, or Who Killed Colonel Protheroe?." Crime Fiction Studies 2.2 (2021): 203-217.

Rowland, Susan. From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction. Crime Files Series. Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1057/9780230598782_4

Sarnelli, Debora A. "From Maps to Stories: Dangerous Spaces in Agatha Christie’s Homes" Humanities vol.8, no.23. (2019) pp.1-12 https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010023

Satia, Priya. Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Stewart, Victoria. “Defining Detective Fiction in Interwar Britain”. The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945, vol.9 (2013) pp.101–18.

Yiannitsaros, Christopher. "“Tea and scandal at four-thirty”: Fantasies of Englishness and Agatha Christie’s Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s’." Clues: A Journal of Detection 35.2 (2017): 78-88.

York, Richard A. Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion. Crime Files Series. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Sayers, Allingham, Marsh and the Golden Age

Acheson, Carol. ‘Cultural Ambivalence: Ngaio Marsh’s New Zealand Detective Fiction’, Journal of Popular Culture 19.2, 1985

Bright, Brittain. Beyond the Scene of the Crime: Investigating Place in Golden Age Detective Fiction. Diss. Goldsmiths, University of London, 2015.

Birns, Nicholas, and Margaret Boe Birns. “Detective Fiction and the Prose of Everyday Life: Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh and Gladys Mitchell in the 1950s.” The 1950s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, edited by Nick Bentley, Nick Hubble and Alice Ferrebe.Bloomsbury, 2018, pp.205.

Connelly, Kelly C. "From Detective Fiction to Detective Literature: Psychology in the Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers and Margaret Millar." Clues25.3 (2007): 35.

Delamater, Jerome, and Ruth Prigozy, eds. Theory and practice of classic detective fiction. No. 62. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997.

D'Cruze, Shani. "‘Dad's Back’: Mapping Masculinities, Moralities and the Law in the Novels of Margery Allingham." Cultural and Social History 1.3 (2004): 256-279.

Dooley, Allan C., and Linda J. Dooley. "Rereading Ngaio Marsh." Essays on Detective Fiction, edited by Bernard Benstock, Palgrave Macmillan, 1983, pp.33-48.

Harding, Bruce, “The Twin Sisters in the Family of Fiction”, Clues, vol. 22, no.1, 2001, pp. 137-60

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McDorman, Kathryn, “Nagio Marsh and the Drug Scene of Detective Fiction” in The Languages of Addiction, edited by Jane Lillianfield, Macmillan, 1999, pp.135-59.

Miller, Kristine A. "No Escape in the Detective and Spy Fiction of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Graham Greene." British Literature of the Blitz: Fighting the People’s War. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. 116-151.

Morse, Ruth. "Racination and Ratiocination: Post-Colonial Crime." European Review, vol.13, no. 1, 2005, pp.79-89.

Rowland, Susan. From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction. Springer, 2000.

Rowland, Susan. "Margery Allingham's Gothic: Genre as Cultural Criticism." Clues 23.1 (2004): 27.

Serafini, Stefano. "" The Ghost of Dr. Freud Haunts Everything Today": Criminal Minds in the Golden Age Psychological Thriller." Clues: A Journal of Detection, vol.37, no .2, 2019, pp.20-30.

Schütz, Anton. "The Rise of Crime Fiction and the Fading of Law’s Empire." Crime Fiction and the Law edited by Maria Aristodemou, Fiona Macmillan, and Patricia Tuitt, Routledge, 2016, pp. 27-42.

Walton, Samantha. Guilty But Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction. Oxford Textual Perspectives, 2015.

Weinkauf, Mary S., and Mary Wickizer Burgess. Murder Most Poetic: The Mystery Novels of Ngaio Marsh. Vol. 14. Wildside Press LLC, 1996.

Willis, Chris. "Forgotten Queen of Crime." Clues 23.1 (2004): 89.

Zsámba, Renáta. "The Female Gentleman and the Myth of Englishness in the Detective Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 26.1 (2020).

Zsámba, Renáta. "“How are you getting on with your forgetting?”: The Past and the Present in Margery Allingham’s and Josephine Tey’s crime fiction." HUSSE, vol.11, 2014, pp.367-380

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General Secondary Text recommendation:

Auden, W.H. The Guilty Vicarage Link opens in a new window(1963);
Bell, Ian and Daldry, Graham (eds)., Watching the Detectives (1990);
Barnard, Robert., A Talent to Deceive (1980);
Bird, Delys (ed.), Killing Women (1993);
Botting, Fred, Gothic (2001);
Browne, Ray and Kreiser, Lawrence The Detective as Historian (2000);
Cawelti, John G., Adventure, Mystery, and Romance (1976);
Clarke, Clare, Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock (2014); British Detective Fiction 1891-1901: The Successors to Sherlock Holmes (2020)
Dirda, Michael, On Conan Doyle (2012);
Earwaker, Julian and Becker, Kathleen, Scene of the Crime (2002);
Fiske, John, Understanding Popular Culture (1992);
Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish (1991) and Power/Knowledge (1980);
Frank, Lawrence,Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence (2003);
Hopkins, Lisa. Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2023
Joyce, Simon, Capital Offences (2003);
Priestman, Martin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (2003), Detective Fiction and Literature (1990), Crime Fiction (1998);
Klaus, Gustav and Knight, Stephen (eds), The Art of Murder (1998);
Knight, Stephen, Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction (1988), Crime Fiction 1800-2000 (2004);
Light, Alison, Forever England (1991);
Malmgren, Carl, Anatomy of a Murder (2001);
Mandel, Ernst, Delightful Murder (1984);
Mangham, Andrew, Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007);
Most, Glenn and Stowe, William (eds), The Poetics of Murder (1983);
Munt, Sally, Murder by the Book (1994);
Mukherjee, Pablo, Crime and Empire (2003);
Orwell, George, The Decline of English Murder and Other Essays (1944);
Pittard, Christopher, Purity and Contamination in Late-Victorian Detective Fiction (2011);
Plain, Gill, Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (2001);
Porter, Dennis, The Pursuit of Crime (1981);
Reddy, Maureen, Sisters in Crime (1988);
Reitz, Caroline, Detecting the Nation (2004);
Roth, Marty, Foul and Fair Play (1995);
Summerscale, Kate, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008);
Thomas, Ronald, Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science (2004);
Trodd, Anthea, Domestic Crime in the Victorian Novel (1998);
Walker, Ronald and Frazer, June (eds), The Cunning Craft (1990),