Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #crimewriting, aggregated by home.social.
Josephine Tey & the problem of time
20 Oct, Melrose. £6
According to Val McDermid, Josephine Tey is the bridge between Golden Age & contemporary crime fiction. Tey’s books were unconventional in their portrayal of sexuality & in their playful challenges to the norms of the genre, & also took unusual approaches to questions of time & space. Prof Timothy Baker investigates.
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #crimefiction #womenwriters #crimewriting #detectivefiction
How do detectives in fictional crime dramas not find the culprit by smell?
Got bleach on my hands this morning. It's now late afternoon, and despite washing them multiple times and applying moisturiser, every time I move my hands all I can smell is the bleach.
Surely killers who use bleach to clean up the crime scene will walk around for hours alerting anyone with a sense of smell?
#CrimeWriting #MurderMysteries
#Writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersofMastodon
In Conversation with... Ian Rankin
14 August, Edinburgh. £14.50 / £16.50
In Conversation with Ian Rankin explores the career of the bestselling author behind detective John Rebus. His novels, translated into 36 languages, have been adapted for radio, stage & screen, and earned major honours including multiple Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards, the Edgar Award, & the Deutscher Krimipreis.
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/in-conversation-with-ian-rankin
#Scottish #literature #IanRankin #crimewriting #crimefiction
A Kick Up the Arts: Bloody Scotland 2026
In the latest episode of A Kick Up the Arts, Nicola Meighan discusses what’s in store at Bloody Scotland 2026 with this year’s guest programmer, Denise Mina, festival director Bob McDevitt and best-selling author and board member Craig Robertson, along with two of the writers shortlisted for this year’s prestigious debut prize, Linda Duncan McLaughlin and May Rinaldi.
https://www.akickupthearts.org/blog-3-1/bloody-scotland-2026
Bloody Scotland 2026
18–20 September, Stirling
Tickets are now on sale for Bloody Scotland 2026, Scotland’s international crime-writing festival.
https://bloodyscotland.com/whats-on/
#Scottish #literature #books #bookfestival #CrimeWriting #BloodyScotland
You can download a free ebook of THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR, & Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle – as well as many other works by the great man – from @gutenberg_org
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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/294
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #horror #supernatural
The 12 best Sherlock Holmes stories, according to Arthur Conan Doyle – via @literaryhub
In March 1927, Conan Doyle put together a list of his own top 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, sealed it in an envelope, & left it with the editor of the Strand magazine…
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https://lithub.com/the-12-best-sherlock-holmes-stories-according-to-arthur-conan-doyle/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle
“think Kurosawa’s ‘Rashomon’, or Tarantino’s ‘Jackie Brown’, but set in Glasgow”
The Oscar Slater case also features in Frank Kuppner’s 1989 novel (“of sorts”), A VERY QUIET STREET
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https://indelibleinkblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/a-very-quiet-street/
#Scottish #literature #CrimeWriting #novel #TrueCrime #Glasgow
In 1912, “Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world’s most celebrated fictional detective, had turned detective himself in an actual murder case – in the process liberating a man who had spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit”
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https://crimereads.com/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-scottish-dreyfus-affair/
#Scottish #literature #Edwardian #Glasgow #Crimewriting #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #truecrime
When Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, “20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand”. Public pressure – & a huge fee – brought Holmes back from the dead; did this fictional immortality influence Doyle’s spiritualism?
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n13/leah-price/one-chapter-more
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #spiritualism
“Holmes’s stories […] have a surprisingly grounded view of crime, & one that arguably fits better into the hardboiled tradition of Hammett & Chandler than the cozy tradition of Christie”
—Alexis Hall on Sherlock Holmes as noir icon
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https://crimereads.com/sherlock-holmes-hardboiled-detective/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #hardboiled #noir
Curently on BBC Sounds. Harriett Gilbert is joined by internationally bestselling crime writer Denise Mina & Dr Mark Jones, co-presenter of The Doings of Doyle podcast & editor of The Sherlock Holmes Journal, to discuss Sherlock Holmes’s lasting influence on crime & detective fiction.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct74s3
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle
According to Guinness World Records, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character. Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 100 best, worst, & strangest screen portrayals of the great detective
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https://crimereads.com/100-sherlock-holmes-ranked/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #film #cinema #television
Conan Doyle “scrawled lists, considering various combinations of given names and surnames…”
—Michael Sims investigates the creation of the Great Detective for @literaryhub – & discovers why today is #SherlockHolmesDay not #SherringtonHopeDay
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https://lithub.com/how-sherlock-holmes-got-his-name/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵
On BBC Sounds: Bridget Kendall explores Conan Doyle’s life & work – the doctor & literary superstar who changed crime fiction forever
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle
Homicide detective work isn’t a schedule—it’s a constant state of readiness. Long hours, on-call nights, and cases that don’t wait for convenience define the job behind the badge.
Step into the real demands of solving violent crimes and the pressure that never truly clocks out.
Read more: https://www.davidthomasthegordianknot.com/homicide-detective-schedule-hours-on-call-case-load/
#TrueCrime #DetectiveLife #HomicideInvestigation #CrimeWriting #PoliceWork
The latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast is a collaboration with Bloody Scotland – Scotland's International Crime Writing Festival. Alistair Braidwood speaks to the five shortlisted authors for this year’s McIlvanney Prize, awarded for the best Scottish crime book of the year.
#Scottish #literature #crimefiction #crimewriting #podcast #BloodyScotland
Currently on BBC Sounds: award-winning crime writer Denise Mina discusses her 20th novel, THE GOOD LIAR, which follows blood-spatter forensics expert Claudia O’Sheil as she faces a profound moral dilemma. Denise also shares the 3 key books that inspired the novel’s creation
Can’t get to Jacksonville this July?
Attend the Double Vision Writers Workshop 2025 LIVE via Zoom from anywhere!
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Real crime experts. Bestseller authors. Writer-focused workshops.
Register now before digital seats disappear!
https://nefloridasistersincrime.org/double-vision-writers-workshop-2025
#WritersOfTikTok #CrimeWriting #ZoomWritersWorkshop #DoubleVision2025 #MysteryWriters #SistersInCrime #WritersOnZoom #TrueCrimeWriters #FloridaEvents
Bloody Scotland 2025
A Kick Up the Arts with Ian Rankin, Natalie Jayne Clark & Gordon Brown
Recorded at the launch of Bloody Scotland 2025, host Nicola Meighan is joined by Sir Ian Rankin, Bloody Scotland founder and author Gordon Brown – aka Morgan Cry – and writer Natalie Jayne Clark, whose new book The Malt Whisky Murders is shortlisted for the festival’s 2025 debut novel prize.
“You don’t just start trying to heelflip. Tricks build on other tricks. There’s a natural order, it’s like a branching tree. . To learn to heelflip you first need to be able to ollie.”
Callum McSorley – author & proud adult skateboarder – on “two to make it true”: facing your fears for one more try…
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#Scottish #literature #crime #crimefiction #crimewriting #writing #WritingCommunity #skateboarding
“To study Josephine Tey’s literary connections is to draw out a different picture of the inter-war & post-war Scottish literary scene: one that foregrounds women, & draws out forgotten areas of popularity”
Jennifer Morag Henderson uncovers the mysteries of Goldan Age crime queen Josephine Tey
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/josephine-tey-mystery-writer/
#Scottish #literature #crime #crimefiction #crimewriting #20thcentury #womenwriters
“I began to sense the intimate connection between architecture and crime fiction. If the house is, in Le Corbusier’s famous phrase, a machine for living in, then the room, in crime fiction, is a box for murder”
Liam McIlvanney cases the Architecture of Scottish Crime Fiction, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Abir Mukherjee
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#Scottish #literature #crime #crimefiction #crimewriting #architecture #buildings
“Since the early twentieth century, Gaelic writers have been experimenting with crime elements and trying to write in the genre…”
Petra Johana Poncarová investigates crime fiction in Gaelic in the 20th & 21st centuries
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#Scottish #literature #crime #crimefiction #crimewriting #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
Help! Murder! Polis!
“Whether buried in the blackhouses of Lewis or the shuttered shipyards of Glasgow, Scotland’s mysteries speak to specific legacies which have shaped the land- & cityscapes that house its crimes”
THE BOTTLE IMP goes on the trail of Scottish crime writing…
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In March 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle put together a list of his own top 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, sealed it in an envelope, & left it with the editor of the Strand magazine…
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https://lithub.com/the-12-best-sherlock-holmes-stories-according-to-arthur-conan-doyle/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle
In 1912, “Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world’s most celebrated fictional detective, had turned detective himself in an actual murder case – in the process liberating a man who had spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.”
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https://crimereads.com/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-scottish-dreyfus-affair/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #TrueCrime
When Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, “20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand”. Public pressure – & a huge fee – brought Holmes back from the dead; did this fictional immortality influence Doyle’s spiritualism?
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n13/leah-price/one-chapter-more
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #Spiritualism
“Holmes’s stories […] have a surprisingly grounded view of crime, & one that arguably fits better into the hardboiled tradition of Hammett & Chandler than the cozy tradition of Christie”
—Alexis Hall on Sherlock Holmes as noir icon
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https://crimereads.com/sherlock-holmes-hardboiled-detective/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #noir
According to Guinness World Records, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character. Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 100 best, worst, & strangest screen portrayals of the great detective
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https://crimereads.com/100-sherlock-holmes-ranked/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #TV #television #film #cinema #adaptation
Conan Doyle “scrawled lists, considering various combinations of given names and surnames, including Sherrington Hope…”
—Michael Sims investigates the creation of the Great Detective – & why today is #SherlockHolmesDay not #SherringtonHopeDay
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https://lithub.com/how-sherlock-holmes-got-his-name/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵
On BBC Sounds: Bridget Kendall explores Conan Doyle’s life & work – the doctor & literary superstar who changed Crime fiction forever
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle