The Rap Sheet: The Upsides of Down Under

Saturday, April 12, 2008

The Upsides of Down Under

For readers who are curious about Australasian crime fiction, but don’t know where to begin exploring the field, AustCrimeFiction editor Karen Chisholm offers a handy starter pack of novels. Her suggestions include Peter Corris’ private-eye works, Geoff McGeachin’s “hilarious” Alby Murdoch spy series, Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher historical novels, and Fergus Hume’s 1886 classic, The Mystery of the Hansom Cab.

Again, click here to find all her suggestions.

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QUOTABLE CRIME

“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.”
— James M. Cain, from the preface to Double Indemnity