Mystery in the global village
The Christian Science Monitor this week has a piece on the new international flavour of mystery fiction. Once the domain of hard-boiled American detectives, argues reporter Randy Dotinga, the genre has expanded to include books like Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency are set in different countries and focus on more contemporary issues. Writes Dotinga: “Why the interest in worldly detectives? Some observers say readers are tired of poor products by assembly-line American writers…. Reflecting the issues facing the nations in which they take place, many international detective novels are more than simple whodunits.”
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