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It appears that the ground is being laid for an expanding Indian readership in English eager to consume stories of all kinds.
“The Killer Inside Me,” published in 1952, is his best-known novel. Its narrator is Lou Ford, a 29-year-old Texas sheriff who pretends to be a bland and boring rube but ends up committing every murder ...
I had just finished reading one of Dorothy Sayers’ novels ... crime, we also get to see which events fit and which are red herrings. The detective narrative makes sense of seemingly unrelated events ...
Two big names in Chicago crime fiction are hosting a meet-and-greet event this weekend. 10 Reasons Why Toyotas Best-Selling ...
I had just finished reading one of Dorothy Sayers’ novels – “Gaudy Night,” which ... when it occurred to me that I would have loved a detective fiction class as an undergraduate.