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crime fiction
Books & Arts
A change in the atmosphere
Jane Goodall
18 March 2019
Television
| The different focus and register of season two of
Secret City
reflects a shift in Canberra itself
Books & Arts
The man and his city
Shane Maloney
30 August 2018
From the archive | Shane Maloney
surveys the career of one of Sydney’s best-known fictional characters and the achievement of his creator, Peter Corris, who died this week
Books & Arts
Crime waves
Jane Goodall
13 November 2017
Television
| SBS has identified a thirst for crime drama, but program-makers aren’t always coming up with the goods
Books & Arts
Too clever by half
Jane Goodall
4 January 2016
Television
|
Jane Goodall
witnesses Sherlock’s return to the world of fogs and hansom cabs
Books & Arts
The afterlife of Agatha Christie
John Rickard
5 February 2015
Books
| A new Hercule Poirot novel is a reminder of the remarkable narrative skills of his creator, writes
John Rickard
Books & Arts
Fergus Hume’s startling story
Simon Caterson
8 May 2012
An overnight sensation when it was published in Melbourne in 1886,
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
played a key role the development of crime fiction, writes
Simon Caterson
National Affairs
The novelists who kicked the hornets’ nests
Brian Toohey
3 November 2009
Two novels, two realities.
Brian Toohey
looks at what fiction can tell us about governments and human rights
Books & Arts
Paradise lost
Peter Browne
2 April 2009
What price utopia?
Peter Browne
reviews two new memoirs and a reissued series of crime novels
Books & Arts
Reading Agatha Christie
Dennis Altman
5 January 2009
Just below the surface is another, less orderly world, writes
Dennis Altman