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3 unusual facts about Crime fiction


Dieter Cunz

He is also said to have co‑authored several detective novels or Kriminalromane in collaboration with Oskar Seidlin and Richard Plant (1910–1998) under the collective pen‑name of Stefan Brockhoff (q.v.).

Oskar Seidlin

He is also said to have co‑authored several detective novels or Kriminalromane in collaboration with Dieter Cunz and Richard Plant (1910–1998, his lover) under the collective pen‑name of Stefan Brockhoff.

Tricky slave

In contrast to these positive depictions, the tricky slave is portrayed as the antagonist in another Arabian Nights tale, "The Three Apples", an early example of a murder mystery.


Claude Izner

Claude Izner is the pseudonym of two sisters, Liliane Korb (born in 1940) and Laurence Lefèvre (born in 1951), both booksellers on the banks of the Seine in Paris, who jointly write the popular "Victor Legris" series of crime novels.

My Life in Prison

My Life in Prison (2004) is the third novel in John Kiriamiti's Kenyan crime fiction series, following My Life as a Criminal, and My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story.

Natasha Cooper

Natasha J. Cooper (born 1951 in Kensington, London) is an English crime fiction writer.

Otago Access Radio

One of the regular shows on the station is Write On, the radio show of the Otago Southland branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors, hosted by local crime fiction author Vanda Symon.

Prayers for the Assassin

Prayers for the Assassin is a political thriller, and a work of speculative fiction, written by American crime writer Robert Ferrigno.

The Dogmatics

Singer/songwriter Jerry Lehane is the cousin of renowned crime fiction author Dennis Lehane.

The Lincoln Lawyer

The Lincoln Lawyer is a 2005 novel, the sixteenth by American crime writer Michael Connelly.

The Maul and the Pear Tree

The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 is a true crime book by British historian T. A. Critchley and mystery writer P. D. James about the Ratcliff Highway murders, published in 1971.

Vince Alascia

Mostly, however, Alascia worked with Charlton Comics of Derby, Connecticut, where he was teamed with Charles Nicholas (the 1921-1985 comics artist of that name) on a full gamut of crime, suspense, mystery, science fiction, war, Western, romance, and hot-rod titles, beginning with Crime and Justice #16 (Jan. 1953).


see also

Arthur Ellis

Arthur Ellis Awards, are Canadian awards presented to writers of crime fiction and true crime

Fareedi

Famous Urdu crime fiction novelist Ibn-e-Safi created a character called Ahmad Kamal Faridi which became very popular in the second half of twentieth century among Urdu readership.

Fredric Drum

Fredric Drum is a fictional character who appears in works by the Norwegian author Gert Nygårdshaug, the protagonist of ten crime fiction novels published over the course of 21 years.

Gert Prokop

Gert Prokop (born June 11, 1932 in Richtenberg; died March, 1994 in Berlin from suicide) was a German writer of science fiction and crime fiction.

Jay McShann

Crime-fiction writer Elmore Leonard featured McShann as a character in his 2005 novel, The Hot Kid.

Kommissar

Kommissar X, German crime fiction series of books from the Pabel Moewig publishing house

Leonard Chang

Chang's experiments in crime fiction is related to this shift, since the stories revolve around solving a mystery or crime, and despite the fact that the protagonist is Korean American, the debt here is more to crime and noir writers like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald.

Lionel Davidson

In 2001, he was awarded the CWA's Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award, for making "a significant contribution to crime fiction published in the English language".

Meung-sur-Loire

Also in fiction, Meung-sur-Loire is the country home of Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, Georges Simenon's classic crime fiction character.

Miles Tripp

Some of his novels, although they are about the themes of the law, crime, and retribution, are not in the classic crime fiction mould in that they are not whodunnits.

Natsuo Kirino

In addition to comparisons with hardboiled crime fiction, Kirino's work has been compared with horror fiction (the gruesome dismemberment scenes in Out, for example) and proletarian literature such as Kanikōsen.

Punjabi literature

Second generation writers of Punjabi ancestry such as Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon (writes under the name Roop Dhillon) have explored the relationship between British Punjabis and their immigrant parents as well as experiment with surrealism, science-fiction and crime-fiction.

Randy White

Randy Wayne White (born 1950), American writer of crime fiction and non-fiction adventure

Riding the Rap

Riding the Rap is a 1995 crime fiction novel by Elmore Leonard.

The Longships in Harbour

It is a collection of poetry by William McIlvanney, a Scottish writer better known for his novels, and particularly crime fiction.

Tony Bailie

A short story, The Druid’s Dance was featured in the crime fiction anthology Requiems for the Departed, published by Morrigan Books in June 2010, which also featured fellow Irish writers Ken Bruen, Stuart Neville, Arlene Hunt, Brian McGilloway, and Sam Millar.

Vincent Calvino

The third novel in the Vincent Calvino series Zero Hour in Phnom Pehn (original Cut Out) won the 3rd place of 2004 German Critics Award for Crime Fiction (Deutscher Krimi Preis) in the international crime fiction category.