When Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö spoke of their purpose in writing the Martin Beck police procedurals, they used a metaphor suggesting a surgeon and a patient: the authors would wield a scalpel in order to lay open the soft...
David Lodge’s comic novel Nice Work is a deft analysis of two cultures simultaneously inhabiting that space known colloquially as contemporary Britain. Set in 1986, designated “Industry Year” by Margaret Thatcher’s government,...
For more information on the published version, visit McFarland's Website., It is a critical commonplace that Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's Martin Beck series is a collection of police procedurals with a social conscience. K....
Winston, Robert P. Strange Order of Things!: The Journey to Chaos in 'Letters from an American Farmer'. Early American Literature 19, no. 3 (1984): 249-67., When Hector St. John de Crèvecœur first published Letters from an...
William McIlvanney has written three mysteries which revolve around the Glaswegian police detective, Jack Laidlaw.1> In each McIlvanney uses his versions of the detective novel to celebrate the continuing richness and diversity...