Description:
For your next vacation, how about a magical mystery tour? In Crimes of the Scene, Nina King and Robin Winks have crafted the perfect guidebook for globe-trotting mystery aficionados. Visit Paris in the company of Jules Maigret, or explore Moscow with Arkady Renko; fictional detectives often operate in very real cities, and Jerusalem, Istanbul, Calcutta, and Belize are just a few of the settings in which mystery writers have conducted their literary mayhem over the years. King and Winks have included mysteries set in almost every part of the world, with the notable exceptions of the United States and England (both so well represented in the genre that they require guidebooks of their own). Each chapter begins with an essay describing some aspect of that region's mysteries, followed by an annotated reading list of books that have been chosen both for their literary quality and the evocativeness of their settings. Wherever possible, the editors have tried to include native authors from each featured region, but not every foreign mystery writer's work has been translated into English. Still, the world is well represented, from Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo in Scandanavia to Gopal Baratham in Singapore, plus many places and authors in between. International explorers and armchair travelers alike will find plenty of great suggestions for their next foreign intrigue between the covers of Crimes of the Scene.
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