Bodleian Library Novel Crime Scenes: Twenty Deadly Landscapes

How did a beautiful Georgian house inspire Agatha Christies Dead Mans Folly? Or a stretch of the East Anglian coast become the place in which a murder victim is discovered in P.D. Jamess Devices and Desires? Novel Crime Scenes explores the landscapes of twenty crime novels in forensic detail. Beginning with the Devon moorland of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1899) and ending with Londons Brick Lane as described in Ajay Chowdhurys The Waiter (2021), it ranges from John Buchans Galloway Hills and Gwen Moffats Cape Wrath to Ellis Peterss Shropshire, Margery Allinghams Essex, Colin Dexters Oxford and Sam Llewellyns Isles of Scilly. Each chapter also delves into the authors background and discovers what the setting of the book meant to them, often by following in the footsteps of Britains best-known crime writers. Whether you are an armchair detective or an intrepid investigator, this book will inspire you to appreciate old favourites with deeper insights and discover thrilling new literary destinations. Autorid: Christina Hardyment