PD Smith

Crime Fiction in German

01 September 2016 | Detectives, German culture, Reviewing, TLS, Watching the Detectives | Post a comment

I’ve just reviewed a new col­lec­tion of essays on Crime Fic­tion in Ger­man, edit­ed by Katha­ri­na Hall who, as well as being a Pro­fes­sor of Ger­man, blogs on inter­na­tion­al crime fic­tion at Mrs Peabody Inves­ti­gates. Appar­ent­ly it’s the first study in Eng­lish “to offer a com­pre­hen­sive overview of Ger­man-lan­guage crime fic­tion from its ori­gins in the ear­ly nine­teenth cen­tu­ry to the post-reuni­fi­ca­tion Ger­many of the new mil­len­ni­um”.

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It’s an absolute­ly fas­ci­nat­ing col­lec­tion, one which has proved very use­ful to me in my research for Watch­ing the Detec­tives. You can down­load Pro­fes­sor Hal­l’s intro­duc­tion to the vol­ume for free here. Unfor­tu­nate­ly you will have to buy a copy of the Times Lit­er­ary Sup­ple­ment to read my review. Or if you have a sub­scrip­tion you can read it here.

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