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feature: Charles Dickens, Crime Fiction & Film
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The history of Dickens' fascination with true crime and the incorporation of the crime genre into his work

feature: Fact, Meet Fiction: On The Writing Of Shake Off By Mischa Hiller
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To my mind the thriller form is most appealing when it has a political backdrop

feature: The Popularity Of Crime Fiction
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So why has crime fiction increased in popularity in recent times?

news: First Ever Detective Novel Back In Print After 150 Years
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The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Felix, dating back to 1862, preceded The Moonstone by some years

news: Rankin tells Orion: 'Authors need publishers'
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Author Ian Rankin stressed that authors "really need publishers", especially "as more content floods the market, of varying quality"

review: Tumblin' Dice by John McFetridge
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It's funny, it's moving, it works

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Elmore Leonard On Writing

Elmore Leonard is one of the undisputed masters of hip, cool, crime fiction.

He's the prolific literary talent behind more than 40 books, including Out of Sight, Get Shorty and Be Cool, novels known for their witty dialogue and gritty realism that were adapted as major Hollywood movies.

elmore-leonard-175.jpgPerhaps one would expect that Leonard derives his inspiration from a life of nonchalant excess and wild nights with shady characters. But the 86-year-old writer told CBC's Day 6 recently that he approaches his work like any other job, clocking in a good eight hours or so a day.

Posted at 10:29AM Wednesday 25 Jan 2012

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