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Reddy, Elizabeth, Baki Cakici, and Andrea Ballestero. "Beyond mystery: Putting algorithmic accountability in context." Big Data & Society 6, no. 1 (January 2019): 205395171982685. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053951719826856.

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Critical algorithm scholarship has demonstrated the difficulties of attributing accountability for the actions and effects of algorithmic systems. In this commentary, we argue that we cannot stop at denouncing the lack of accountability for algorithms and their effects but must engage the broader systems and distributed agencies that algorithmic systems exist within; including standards, regulations, technologies, and social relations. To this end, we explore accountability in “the Generated Detective,” an algorithmically generated comic. Taking up the mantle of detectives ourselves, we investigate accountability in relation to this piece of experimental fiction. We problematize efforts to effect accountability through transparency by undertaking a simple operation: asking for permission to re-publish a set of the algorithmically selected and modified words and images which make the frames of the comic. Recounting this process, we demonstrate slippage between the “complication” of the algorithm and the obscurity of the legal and institutional structures in which it exists.

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Gerhard, Kristin H. "Mystery and Detective Fiction:." Public Library Quarterly 10, no. 4 (March 31, 1991): 49–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j118v10n04_05.

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Mojalefa, M. J., and N. I. Magapa. "Mystery in Sepedi detective stories." Literator 28, no. 1 (July 30, 2007): 121–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v28i1.154.

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The aim of this article is to illustrate the importance of the concept “mystery” in the classification of Sepedi detective stories. Mystery is therefore first defined, and then some rules governing how mystery is created and sustained in a narrative are reviewed. Examples are given of how the writers of Sepedi detective stories mislead their readers in order to create mystery. Mystery is then examined according to five of its constituent elements, namely the real character of the detective, the name of the criminal, the identity of the victim, the evidence that reveals the mystery in the end, and the investigation that reveals the mystery. Each category is explored by citing relevant examples from Sepedi detective stories.

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Balakrishnan, Vijay Shankar. "Detective doctor decodes AIDS mystery." Lancet Infectious Diseases 21, no. 8 (August 2021): 1088. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(21)00392-3.

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Intan, Tania. "KOMPARASI BUDAYA JEPANG DAN PRANCIS MELALUI KOMIK DETEKTIF." Jurnal Bahasa Rupa 2, no. 1 (October 28, 2018): 25–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.31598/bahasarupa.v2i1.214.

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Psychologically, humans have a tendency to love reality and fiction because of life in between. With its unlimited imagination, humans can choose the preferred model of reality or fiction. If he chooses to be a good observer, a good and patient guesser in waiting for answers to important questions, the detective story can be an interesting reading alternative. In general, the detective story developed along with the rapid urbanization as a result of the industrial revolution. Life in big cities becomes insecure because of the increasing population density, unemployment, poverty and crime. To be able to reduce the saturation and tension experienced everyday, the public also entertain themselves with reading. Apparently people love reading about mysterious or even frightening events, because it always ends with a rational explanation of the various puzzles that cling to the reading. The crime-themed book makes readers familiar with the presence of criminals and law enforcers who are hunting him. Comics also called 'image literature', can also be a medium of telling of crimes favored by various circles. In this paper, we will discuss the phenomenon of the existence of detective comics in France and Japan with cultural comparative methods and studied with relevant theories. The results showed that because they came from different cultural backgrounds and published times, several things were found that showed differences between French and Japanese detective comics, including those related to characterization, public, story and cultural backgrounds, and comic formats. While the things that are common among them are the profession of detective figures who work more independently and prominently, and the presence of local police who are supportive of the character's movements, despite the fact that they often arrive late at the scene.

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Jamain, Adrien, and David J. Hand. "The Naive Bayes Mystery: A classification detective story." Pattern Recognition Letters 26, no. 11 (August 2005): 1752–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2005.02.001.

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Malmgren, Carl D. "Anatomy of Murder: Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction." Journal of Popular Culture 30, no. 4 (March 1997): 115–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1997.3004_115.x.

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Murai, Hajime. "Factors of the Detective Story and the Extraction of Plot Patterns Based on Japanese Detective Comics." Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities 5, no. 1 (November 20, 2020): 4–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.17928/jjadh.5.1_4.

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BOYER, STEVEN D. "The logic of mystery." Religious Studies 43, no. 1 (January 15, 2007): 89–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003441250600878x.

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This paper proposes an analytical taxonomy of ‘mystery’ based upon what makes a mystery mysterious. I begin by distinguishing mysteries that depend on what we do not know (e.g. detective fiction) from mysteries that depend on what we do know (e.g. religious mysteries). Then I distinguish three possible grounds for the latter type. The third and most provocative ground offers a mathematical analogy for how rational reflection can be appropriate to mystery without compromising its intrinsically mysterious character. I conclude with reflections on the metaphysical presuppositions that this understanding of mystery requires.

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Belton, Ellen R. "Mystery Without Murder: The Detective Plots of Jane Austen." Nineteenth-Century Literature 43, no. 1 (June 1, 1988): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3044980.

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Lipkin, W. I. "Investigating a Mystery Disease: Tales from a Viral Detective." Journal of Virology 88, no. 21 (August 27, 2014): 12176–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00708-14.

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Belton, Ellen R. "Mystery Without Murder: The Detective Plots of Jane Austen." Nineteenth-Century Literature 43, no. 1 (June 1988): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.1988.43.1.99p01486.

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Stoecklein, Mary. "Native Narratives, Mystery Writing, and the Osage Oil Murders: Examining Mean Spirit and The Osage Rose." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42, no. 3 (July 1, 2018): 137–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.42.3.stoecklein.

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Through analysis of two debut novels, Linda Hogan's Pulitzer-Prize-nominated murdermystery Mean Spirit 1990 and Tom Holm's private eye detective story The Osage Rose 2008, this article considers what Native-authored mystery fiction has to offer in terms of self-representation of Indigenous history and culture. Paying particular attention to detective fiction genre elements—such as the novels' openings, the detectives, the forms of detection, and the resolution—shows how Hogan and Holm employ the mystery genre to present Native narratives about the Osage oil murders, and, given their ability to reach wide audiences, how such narratives ultimately provide broader understandings of Indigenous history and culture.

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Rubio Gijón, Pablo. "“El caso Berciani” de Alan Pauls: un viaje a los bajos fondos." Acta Hispanica 21 (January 1, 2016): 131–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/actahisp.2016.21.131-141.

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“El caso Berciani” (1992) relates to the genre of detective and mystery fiction by parody and distortion. Alan Pauls (Buenos Aires, 1959) explores the relation between order and abjection. In so doing, “El caso Berciani” becomes a thorough reflection on the failure of modernization. This article explores how this short story uses detective fiction to elaborate on knowledge and interpretation, and urban dystopias and social tensions.

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Morabia, Alfredo. "The Medical Detective: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera." BMJ 332, no. 7551 (May 18, 2006): 1220.2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1220-a.

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Coats, Karen. "Detective Nosegoode and the Music Box Mystery by Marian Orłoń." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 71, no. 8 (2018): 347. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2018.0282.

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Spiegelhalter, David. "The mystery of the lost star: A statistical detective story." Significance 2, no. 4 (November 30, 2005): 150–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2005.00126.x.

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Curcio, Frances R., and J. Lewis McNeece. "The Case of Video Viewing, Reading, and Writing in Mathematics Class: Solving the Mystery." Mathematics Teacher 86, no. 8 (November 1993): 682–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mt.86.8.0682.

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The element of mystery can be a naturally intriguing component of a mathematics lesson for middle school students. Mystery stories capture students“ interest and attention and contribute to developing critical-reading skills (Crouse and Bassett 1975; Curcio 1982; Scalzitti 1982). When presenting mystery stories within the context of a mathematics lesson, students often ask, “What does this have to do with mathematics?” Significant connections can be made between solving a mystery and solving a mathematics problem that supply a rationale for incorporating mystery stories in the mathematics class. In particular, similarities in the questions a problem solver asks when confronting a problem (Polya 1973) and the questions a detective asks in solving a mystery can be found in figure 1. After solving short mystery stories, students will see the connection between solving a mystery and solving a mathematics problem.

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Davis, Christine S., and Jan Warren-Findlow. "The Mystery of the Troubled Breast." Qualitative Communication Research 1, no. 3 (2012): 291–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/qcr.2012.1.3.291.

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This autoethnographic narrative uses fictional female heroine Nancy Drew and her friends to perform coauthor Jan's experience of breast cancer. Friends and colleagues Jan and Cris try out alternative characterizations of Nancy Drew as a mechanism for Jan to push back against the social construction of breast cancer victim/survivor. We use performative fiction to be creative and have fun with the experience while providing social support and deepening our relationship. In the end, Jan performs self-with-breast-cancer as an academic feminist, and Nancy Drew performs breast cancer as a fictional female detective—as a case to be solved; supported by friends; and succeeding through persistence, pluck, and luck.

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Moiseev, P. A. "Boltanski, L. (2019). Mysteries and conspiracies. Translated by A. Zakharevich. St. Petersburg: Izdatelstvo Evropeyskogo universiteta. (In Russ.)." Voprosy literatury, no. 2 (June 17, 2021): 264–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2021-2-264-269.

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The review deals with Luc Boltanski's Mysteries and Conspiracies [Enigmes et complots]. The following is noted as defects of the reviewed book: detective fiction is associated with anxieties that question the framework of modern reality. Such attribution, it is argued, results from inaccurate comparison of detective fiction to a spy novel. The reviewer identifies contradictions in the definition of detective fiction: on the one hand, it is characterised by the proverbial anxiety. On the other, the writer suggests that unravelling a mystery normalises the ‘integrity of predictable expectations.' In addition, Boltanski confuses detective fiction with police procedural novels as well as the concepts of genre and theme with regard to spy novels (as a result, he dwells on ‘the genre of the spy novel,' even though spy novels are written in a number of genres). The review particularly criticises Boltanski's assessment of A. Conan Doyle's prose.

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Rochelson, Meri-Jane. "The Big Bow Mystery: Jewish Identity and the English Detective Novel." Victorian Review 17, no. 2 (1991): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vcr.1991.0006.

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Beigie, Darin. "Coordinate Plane Set Detective." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 9, no. 5 (January 2004): 251–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mtms.9.5.0251.

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Coordinate plane graphing is usually introduced to students by asking them to plot specified ordered pairs and identify points on the coordinate plane. A popular example involves plotting a collection of ordered pairs and connecting the resulting points with line segments to form geometric shapes or pictures (e.g., see Mystery Media 1990). This article describes an extension beyond plotting specified points that involves plotting collections of ordered pairs according to prescribed set conditions, such as the one shown in figure 1. These coordinate plane sets can form points, line segments, rays, lines, curves, and regions. I give these problems in an informal manner to my prealgebra students to foster a more robust appreciation of ordered pairs and the coordinate plane before progressing to table-of-values calculations. The problems ask students to investigate the coordinate plane and make decisions about appropriate ordered pairs, to see patterns, to construct pairs, and to make comparisons. The problems encourage thinking and questioning that help with algebraic topics discussed later on, such as solving for the intercepts of an equation, graphing an equation like x = 5, invoking the zero product property, and graphing an inequality (e.g., see Larson, Boswell, Kanold, and Stiff 2001 for a discussion of these algebraic topics). Furthermore, these set problems generally stretch students' minds, often requiring open-ended search and discovery as well as careful investigation and attention to computational details involving absolute values, inequalities, integer operations, arithmetic expressions, and number theory.

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Sandberg, Eric. "Detective Fiction, Nostalgia and Rian Johnson's Knives Out: Making the Golden Age Great Again." Crime Fiction Studies 1, no. 2 (September 2020): 237–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2020.0023.

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The Golden Age is back with a vengeance: reprints, re-boots, and adaptations of interwar detective fiction and its off-shoots have proliferated in the twenty-first century, as have works more loosely, but nonetheless substantially, inspired by the clue-puzzle format developed and perfected by authors like Agatha Christie. This resurgence of the ‘whodunnit’ mystery is something of mystery itself, as the centre of gravity of crime writing has long shifted away from this ostensibly dated and aesthetically limited form. This paper explores this unexpected development, looking in particular at the role of nostalgia in relation to new Golden Age mysteries. While nostalgia is frequently, and quite justly, viewed in negative terms as a personally and politically regressive phenomenon, in some cases, as in Rian Johnson’s murder mystery Knives Out (2019), examined here, it can be used not simply as a dubious marketing or aesthetic strategy, but as part of a broader social critique in which one form of nostalgia is used to critique another.

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Schneider, Michael A. "Mr. Moto: Improbable International Man of Mystery." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 22, no. 1 (April 10, 2015): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18765610-02201002.

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Mr. Moto, a fictional Japanese detective, achieved mass popularity through a series of 1930s films starring Peter Lorre. Moto was the creation of successful writer John P. Marquand (1893–1960), whose novels depicted a Japanese international spy quite different from the genial Mr. Moto of film. Revisiting the original Mr. Moto novels illuminates a Japanese character who rationalized Japan’s 1930s continental expansionism in ways that might have been acceptable to many Americans. Although Marquand intended to present Mr. Moto as a “moderate” and reasonable Japanese agent and generally present East Asians in a positive light, it is difficult to see the novels as doing anything more than buttressing prevailing racial and ethnic stereotypes.

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John, Jerrin Aleyamma. "Serial Killing as a Defence Mechanism: A Study of Thomas Harris’s “The Silence of the Lambs”." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 11 (November 28, 2019): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i11.10123.

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The literary canon carries with it a huge array of possible writings exploring the various contours of fiction, the genre of Detective fiction is one such umbrella term. The effect of mystery and suspense and the surprise factors being hidden away in the pages, keeps the readers glued to detective fiction. This paper explores the plot line of one of the prominent detective stories, Thomas Harris’s ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ in search of certain existential questions regarding the named serial killer in the plot. The social evil of killing the lives of many for the purely pleasure aspect is viewed from multiple viewpoints and a new reading of the plot by placing it within relevant contextual framework is carried out. A traversal through the psychological, behavioural and social norms of the context is explores within the paper.

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Jarvis, Mary. "Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader’s Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction200488Gary Warren Niebuhr. Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader’s Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited 2003. xv + 605 pp., ISBN: 1 56308 784 7 £54.50/$65." Reference Reviews 18, no. 2 (March 2004): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09504120410521079.

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Hume, Beverly A., and John T. Irwin. "The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story." American Literature 66, no. 3 (September 1994): 600. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927609.

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Resina, Joan Ramon, and John T. Irwin. "The Mystery to a Solution. Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story." Hispanic Review 63, no. 3 (1995): 484. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/474703.

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Incledon, John, and John T. Irwin. "The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story." Hispania 77, no. 4 (December 1994): 823. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/345721.

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Mowat, John, and John T. Irwin. "The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story." Modern Language Review 90, no. 2 (April 1995): 427. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3734575.

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Yuhee Park. "An Essay on the Representation of Detective appeared in Korean Mystery-narrative." Review of Korean Cultural Studies ll, no. 31 (November 2009): 397–434. http://dx.doi.org/10.17329/kcbook.2009..31.015.

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Oppermann, Eva. "Mary and the Mystery of the Strange Crying: Elements of the Detective Story in The Secret Garden." International Research in Children's Literature 11, no. 1 (July 2018): 80–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2018.0255.

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This contribution demonstrates how Burnett adopts several devices typical of detective fiction, namely clues, secondary secrets, interrogations, Gothic elements and the investigating outsider in a closed (and reclusive) society, in The Secret Garden in order to introduce tension and the motif of a riddle to solve her masterpiece. She also for the first time uses character qualities to develop Mary into a character with a talent to rely on her own observations and draw the correct conclusions. Thus she becomes the prototype of the girl sleuth who will become important in later detective fiction for children. This so far neglected aspect provides new insight into both the novel's plot structure and its main character's special qualities.

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Kruger, N., and H. Van Coller. "Aantekeninge oor Die ryk van die rawe deur Jaco Fouché." Literator 24, no. 2 (August 1, 2003): 83–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v24i2.292.

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Notes on Jaco Fouché’s novel Die ryk van die rawe Jaco Fouché’s debut novel Die ryk van die rawe (The domain of the ravens) has been widely acclaimed by critics. Their focus mainly fell on the intertextual relations of the novel with other literary texts, especially novels by Etienne Leroux. This article analyses Fouché’s novel against the backdrop of the (satirical) picaresque tradition and the detective genre. The article focuses on two aspects: Fouché’s indebtedness to (post)modern art forms, particularly comics, graphics, television and cinema; and the interpretation of neo-existentialist philosophy.

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Shotwell, Gregg. "A Working-Class Sherlock." Monthly Review 68, no. 5 (October 7, 2016): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/mr-068-05-2016-09_7.

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Timothy Sheard, the Lenny Moss mystery series (New York: Hardball).At its best, the art of fiction reveals the underlying truth of human relations: we are communal and collaborative by nature. Selfishness and greed are social aberrations because, ultimately, they violate the principle of self-preservation. No wonder we are drawn to crime stories: they mirror our common experience. Capitalism is high crime disguised as church doctrine. Conspiracy is evident, though the evidence is concealed. Hence, our fascination with the detective genre. We are in dire need of Timothy Sheard's scrutiny—a detective who peers through a working-class eyeglass.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

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Klaehn, Jeffery. "'I'll just say two words ‐ "East Timor"': An interview with Norm Breyfogle1." Studies in Comics 10, no. 2 (November 1, 2019): 349–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/stic_00009_7.

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Abstract Norm Breyfogle (27 February 1960‐24 September 2018) is widely recognized for his six years (1987‐93) spent illustrating various Batman titles for DC Comics, most notably Detective Comics, Batman and Batman: Shadow of the Bat. He also illustrated several prestige edition one-shots set within the Batman narrative universe, including Batman: Birth of the Demon (1992), which he hand-painted, and the 'Elseworlds' stories, Batman: Holy Terror (1991), Batman: The Abduction (1998) and Batman: Dreamland (2000). In this interview, undertaken in 2007, he discusses his approach to cover design and interior art; the comic industry; how he came to work on Batman; his collaborations with writer Alan Grant; reflections on the character of Anarky; details on an unpublished three issue Anarky storyline involving East Timor and US arms sales to Indonesia; how Batman has changed over the decades; as well as his thoughts on how Jim Aparo, Marshall Rogers and Frank Miller drew Batman.

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Elias, Amy J. "Context Rocks!" Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 134, no. 3 (May 2019): 579–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.579.

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Searching for the phrase “appreciation of literature” in Google's Ngram Viewer shows that the phrase reached its peak usage in English publications between 1936 and 1937 and then nosedived after those years. It's interesting to speculate about what came together at that time. In 1937, DC Thomson published the first issue of The Dandy, one of the best selling comics in the history of British pop culture and the third-longest-running comics in the world; Daffy Duck debuted in the animated short Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery for the Looney Tunes series; and Detective Comics commenced publication. A year later, Superman went public. But 1937 also was the year that John Crowe Ransom left Vanderbilt University for Kenyon College and published “Criticism, Inc.” in The Virginia Quarterly Review. The target of Ransom's ire is “moralist” historical criticism, into which camp he puts actual morality purveyors, the new humanists and the new leftists (those purveyors of what we often now call symptomatic readings), and “personal registrations” or unfettered appreciation (597). While of course correlation is not causation, 1937 might mark an important fork in the subterranean lines in the United States, where the two trains of comics fandom and literary criticism begin to go in different directions, on trajectories that take them farther apart during and after World War II: comics toward the aesthetics of appreciation, and criticism to increasingly professionalized literary analysis. Critics today seem to be returning to this junction, asking how comics and criticism might reunite. Perhaps that convergence is happening now, through approaches variously known as surface reading (Best and Marcus), reparative reading (Sedgwick), close reading, postcritique (Felski, Limits), thin description (Love), or redescription (Latour)—each of which encourages professionalized critical appraisal without taking rolling stock into dead-end symptomatic tunnels. Perhaps it is through some other approach, one that may look like Hillary Chute's Why Comics?

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González-Calderón, Julia. "The irrelevant mystery, the involuntary detective, the melting clue: notes on La pista de Hielo, a neopolicial by Roberto Bolaño." Alea: Estudos Neolatinos 20, no. 1 (January 2018): 125–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1517-106x/2018201125141.

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Abstract: This article analyzes La pista de hielo (The Skating Rink, 1993), the third novel by Roberto Bolaño, as an exponent of the Ibero-American neopolicial, focusing on how two of the main dramatic elements of the detective tale, the enigma and the detective figure, are decentralized through a series of narrative mechanisms that eventually dismantle traditional genre conventions. Furthermore, we will link La pista de hielo and its narrative key elements with the rest of the novelistic of the Chilean author, as well as with the main exponents of the neopolicial, such as Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Leonardo Padura or Ramón Díaz Eterovic.

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Krawczyk-Żywko, Lucyna. "A Study in Four Colours: The Case of the Chameleon Detective." Victoriographies 6, no. 1 (March 2016): 25–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2016.0209.

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Sherlock Holmes, one of the world's most famous detectives, is skilled at disguising himself and adjusting to different circumstances and yet remaining himself. Few literary characters lose so little in the process of adaptation, be it cinematic or literary, and I propose calling him a cultural chameleon: regardless of the palette and colour against which he is positioned – warm (scarlet and pink), cold (emerald), or black – he remains a brilliant sleuth. This paper compares four titles and four colours: A Study in Scarlet (1887), the first of the long-running series of texts by Doyle, and three instances of Holmes's adaptability to twenty-first century standards and expectations: ‘A Study in Emerald’ (2003), an award-winning short story by Neil Gaiman, ‘A Study in Pink’ (2010), the first episode of the BBC series Sherlock, and ‘A Study in Black’ (2012–13), a part of the Watson and Holmes comics series. Each background highlights different aspects of the detective's personality, but also sheds light on his approach to crime and criminals.

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Hamilton, Scott Eric. "The Murphy Murder Mystery: An Irish “post-mortem situation”." Estudios Irlandeses, no. 16 (March 17, 2021): 139–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.24162/ei2021-9987.

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This paper will propose that Beckett’s affinity for crime and mystery fiction also contributes to Murphy. The novel will be examined on the proposed hypothesis that Murphy’s death, so-called, is conspicuously left ambiguous to a certain degree, rendering it a type of mystery narrative. Approaching the mysterious death as something like a detective fiction “cold case”, the events of Murphy, and clues left by Beckett throughout the prose that follows, I will investigate whether or not Murphy does actually die toward the end of the book. Although Beckett does not present these aspects in the traditional form of “thriller” fiction, he does use them to create a modernist aesthetic which challenges traditions, identifications of being, identity, representation and space regarding both the individual and the social context of the Irish “postmortem situation” depicted in Murphy.

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Murdoch, B. "Murder, Manners, Mystery. Reflections on Faith in Contemporary Detective Fiction. By Peter C. Erb." Literature and Theology 22, no. 2 (December 3, 2007): 246–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frn019.

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Coleman, Mary. "Murder, Manners, Mystery: Reflections on Faith in Contemporary Detective Fiction - By Peter C. Erb." Reviews in Religion & Theology 16, no. 1 (January 2009): 76–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9418.2008.00412_3.x.

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Young, Suzanne. "The Simple Art of Detection: The Female Detective in Victorian and Contemporary Mystery Novels." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 47, no. 2 (2001): 448–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0056.

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Middleton, Rowan. "“The game is afoot”: Sherlock Holmes, hermeneutics and collaborative writing." Ars Aeterna 12, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2020-0003.

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AbstractSir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories involve a hermeneutic game in which Holmes attempts to uncover the mystery of unsolved crime. The work of Hans-Georg Gadamer enables Holmes’s methods to be seen as both playful and creative as he seeks to understand what G. K. Chesterton refers to as the poetry of the modern world. Holmes is therefore a creative and scientific detective, one who loses himself in the game of detection in order to find himself in the search for truth in the wider world. Through the agency of Dr Watson, the reader is invited to join the game and attempt to work out the solution to the mystery as the narrative unfolds before them. Peter Hühn’s work on the detective as reader and writer is extended in relation to the work of understanding and creation carried out by authors who add new works to the genre of Holmesian fiction. This process is explored in the context of two playful writing workshops in which participants passed the opening of a piece of Holmesian fiction they had written to another participant to continue, before sharing the results with the group. Hans Robert Jauss’s ideas about genre and other perspectives on reimagining Holmes help contextualize the strategies used by participants, while Gadamer’s conception of the festive enables insights into the communal processes of creation and understanding.

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Round, Julia. "‘little gothics’: Misty and the ‘Strange Stories’ of British Girls’ Comics." Gothic Studies 23, no. 2 (July 2021): 163–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0092.

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This article uses a critical framework that draws on the Gothic carnival, children’s Gothic, and Female Gothic to analyse the understudied spooky stories of British comics. It begins by surveying the emergence of short-form horror in American and British comics from the 1950s onwards, which evolved into a particular type of girls’ weekly tale: the ‘Strange Story.’ It then examines the way that the British mystery title Misty (IPC, 1978–80) developed this template in its single stories. This focuses on four key attributes: the directive role of a host character, an oral tone, content that includes two-dimensional characters and an ironic or unexpected plot reversal, and a narrative structure that drives exclusively towards this final point. The article argues that the repetition of this formula and the tales’ short format draw attention to their combination of subversion/conservatism and horror/humour: foregrounding a central paradox of Gothic.

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Pigalev, Sergey. "Mystery fiction in culture: evolution of genre and crisis of cultural paradigm of modernity." Философия и культура, no. 5 (May 2020): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0757.2020.5.33073.

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The subject of this research is the phenomenon of mystery fiction and its evolution in the context of development of sociocultural project of modernity. The latter is viewed as a complex system, which fundamental principles permeate the entire fabrics of European culture, generating such phenomenon as a mystery fiction plot. The analysis of its varieties deepens the understanding of specificity of modernity and mature of crises that has captured it. Hermeneutic analysis allows going beyond the frames of the narrow-disciplinary analysis of the corresponding texts, allowing to determine the inevident layers within the phenomenon of narration of mystery fiction. The initial methodological point is presented by the concept of V. P. Rudnev, who identified interrelation between the mystery fiction storylines and dominant gnoseological paradigm. The author determines the four levels of narration of mystery fiction: ontological, gnoseological, anthropological, and ethical-normative. The classical (analytical) mystery fiction describes reality commensurable to human reason (ontological level), investigation appears as strict analysis (gnoseological level), detective resembles a “private thinker” who is distant from the society and the crime itself (anthropological level), and a crime is interpreted as a deviation that disturbs harmony of the rational order (ethical-normative level). In this sense, a classical mystery fiction is a reflection of metanarrative of modernity, aimed at building a complete system, and excluding the Other. At the same time, the crisis of the basis of modernity is essentially reflected in metamorphoses of mystery fiction genre. In existential and pragmatic mystery fiction, reality is irrational, and boundaries between the norm and deviation are being diluted. Such situation may be describes as disappointment in metanarrative – in underlines the inability of modern culture to adequately fulfill its fundamental functions. The Other strike roots in the cultural space; however, the space itself exists in accordance with the principles of postmodern anarchy.

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Bubíková, Šárka. "Ethnicity and Social Critique in Tony Hilleman’s Crime Fiction." Prague Journal of English Studies 5, no. 1 (July 1, 2016): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2016-0008.

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Abstract American mystery writer Tony Hillerman (1925-2008) achieved wide readership both within the United States and abroad, and, significantly, within the US both among white Americans and Native Americans. This article discusses Hillerman’s detective fiction firstly within the tradition of the genre and then focuses on particular themes and literary means the writer employs in order to disseminate knowledge about the Southwestern nations (tribes) among his readers using the framework of mystery (crime) fiction. Hillerman’s two literary detectives Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee, both of the Navajo Tribal Police, are analyzed and contrasted with female characters. Finally, the article analyzes the ways in which Hillerman makes the detectives’ intimate knowledge of the traditions, beliefs and rituals of the southwestern tribes and of the rough beauty of the landscape central to the novels’ plots, and how he presents cultural information.

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Sistiadinita, Sistiadinita. "A MAN IN THE COURT: EXPLORING THE THEME OF JUSTICE IN AND THEN THERE WERE NONE." Jurnal Ilmiah Spectral 7, no. 1 (January 31, 2021): 051–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.47255/spectral.v7i1.69.

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Having to interact with crime fiction which presumably is considered as ephemeral literature, cannot be an excuse to dissolve the theme of justice inside the plots. Agatha Christie as the Mistress of Complication and Mystery, has written series of murder and mystery fiction since the beginning of twentieth century. And Then There Were None or entitled Ten Little Niggers, one of her masterpieces depicts Christie’s unique disposition of turning perception from ‘detective as criminal solver’ into ‘murderer as justice protector’. This paper seeks to analyze how justice is portrayed and challenged by looking at the characters created by Christie as well as making a more thorough analysis of the symbols and dialogues. The result of this paper portrays that the idea of justice, just like human beings, can be flawed or misinterpreted even by the so- called a man in the court.

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Tan, Jerrine. "The International Settlement: The Fantasy of International Writing in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans." American, British and Canadian Studies 31, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 47–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2018-0016.

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Abstract I identify two general approaches to the reception of Ishiguro’s novels: World Literature critics writing on cosmopolitanism exalt what I am calling Ishiguro’s “post-Japan novels” for their consideration of universal ethical dilemmas that transcend their historical moment and place; conversely, most criticism on his “Japan novels” performs problematically culture-specific exoticizing and Orientalist readings. Widely read as a detective novel about a British detective, Christopher Banks, solving the mystery of his parents’ disappearance, When We Were Orphans is in many ways Ishiguro’s most underwhelming novel. But, set in Shanghai, it is an anomaly among Ishiguro’s “post-Japan novels.” Its lackluster reception may be explained by simply acknowledging from the start that When We Were Orphans is just not a very good detective novel at all. The refusal or discomfort around doing so, this essay argues, is because the excuse of bad genre provides (like Japaneseness does for the Japan novels) precisely the convenient veil for why the novel does not work, or is not well liked. In other words, by historicizing the novel and reading it (with)in its political and historical moment, I argue that When We Were Orphans forces an exposure of the double standard and aestheticizing reading practices that critics often bring to their readings of Ishiguro’s works.

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Freier, Mary P. "A Brief History of Scholarly Study of Detective Fiction, with Particular Attention to the Detective & Mystery Fiction Area of the Popular Culture Association." Collection Management 29, no. 3-4 (October 12, 2004): 189–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j105v29n03_14.

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Parkinson, Gavin. "The Delvaux Mystery: Painting, the Nouveau Roman, and Art History." Nottingham French Studies 51, no. 3 (December 2012): 298–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2012.0029.

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Meant to signal in its parodic title both the causal, deductive conventions of academic art history and those of the detective story, this essay looks at the work of the Belgian artist Paul Delvaux (1897–1994), and discusses the uses to which that œuvre has been put by several of the pioneers of the twentieth-century novel, such as Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Julio Cortázar, and J.G. Ballard. It goes on to speculate as to why so many French novelists from the 1950s who interrogated specifically narrative form, together with those inspired by their example, responded to Delvaux's work in their writing. Asking whether any gain can be made in art history's knowledge and understanding of art by viewing it back through the fiction or poetry generated by it, the essay suggests that fiction and poetry might inflect academic art history at the level of style, asking what the genre implications of such writing might be for a discipline in which writing and style have had such well-defined boundaries and limitations.

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