Wednesday, August 22, 2007

The Continual Reinvention of Crime Fiction


BBC News has an interesting story about the evolution of crime fiction, from Edgar Allan Poe's first foray into crime fiction in 1841 ("The Murders in the Rue Morgue") to Arthur Conan Doyle's famed Sherlock Homes series to Patricia Cornwall. The newest evolution? Agatha Christie stories told via comic books.

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