Category: Crime Fiction

How Silly is Too Silly?

Post author By Alex P
Post date October 5, 2021
Categories In Crime Fiction, Golden Age
2 Comments on How Silly is Too Silly?

Although classic detective novels tell stories, these stories are presented as “problems of logic and deduction…” Those aren’t my words, but the words of Raymond Chandler in his seminal essay The Simple Art of Murder. He’s talking specifically about an early detective novel by A. A. Milne called The Red House Mystery. Chandler continues: “[I]t […]

Metaphysical Detective Fiction

Post author By Alex P
Post date June 30, 2021
Categories In Crime Fiction

There are many subgenres to crime fiction. Police procedural, cozy crime, domestic noir, etc. I enjoy some more than others. But the subgenre I really love is metaphysical detective fiction. It’s not a term you’ll encounter often, though it goes back to the 1940s. It’s probably not the best from a marketing perspective. It sounds […]