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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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I Will Have Vengeance By Maurizio De Giovanni Trans Anne Milano Appel

One of the great pleasures of blogging about crime fiction is the opportunity of getting in at the start of a new series and recommending the books to others. The folks at Hersilia Press were kind enough to contact me, and ask if I wanted to read and review I Will Have Vengeance by Maurizio De Giovanni, the first in a series featuring an enigmatic Naples detective Commissario Ricciardi and set during the Fascist 1930s. The book concerned the violent death of a great tenor, and the combination of an unusual detective, historical setting and Italian opera was impossible to resist.

Posted at 12:31PM Friday 27 Jan 2012

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