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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137340993In the very first Rebus novel, . (1987), Ian Rankin offers us two visions of Edinburgh, the old and the new. As Rebus makes his way home in the early hours, he ponders the spectre of a serial killer, a strangler, at large in this most elegant of cities:

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,Golden Age Gothic: John Dickson Carr’s Locked Room,In . (1935), John Dickson Carr’s larger than life detective Dr. Gideon Fell rails against the pursuit of realism in detective fiction:

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María do Cebreiro Rábade Villark on a Jamesian ghost story. In true Monty James style and the oral tradition, as the assembled company of detectives and academics sit around, one of the dons suddenly launches into a spooky tale concerning the history of the college. The narrative, which has elements of James’s ecclesiastical stor

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María do Cebreiro Rábade Villartually, the half-crazed Legrand uses the insect as a means to uncover the lost treasure of Captain Kidd, the infamous pirate. The story involves the use of cryptography with a detailed description of a method for solving a simple substitution cipher using letter frequencies. Although the discovery o

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Kirsti Niskanen,Michael J. Baranyd — and it changed my life’, it reawakened distant memories of my own.. This remarkable story bade me enter a world of adventure beyond even my own childish fantasies, the world of the detective which, despite the many directions that books have taken me since, I have never entirely abandoned. For s

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