Clearout.
Rufus Stewart owns a single-bedroom apartment in Gorgie, which he had until recently rented out to a young barman named …
Tag Archives: Crime
Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris versus Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Dynamiter.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. THE INFLUENCE OF SAMUEL SMILES’ SELF-HELP. …
Reading Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris in light of The One Thousand and One Nights.
Eugène Sue’s serialised crime novel The Mysteries of Paris (1842-3) begins with a device that had been treasured by contributors …
Putting a Value on Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris.
The central plot-line… is that of a mystery-of-kinship story whose basic literary shape derives from the mystery-romances of Gothic and …
Book Review: The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies.
[In taking all of the quotes in this review from an e-book facsimile of The Secret Commonwealth, I have switched …
The Place of Bitters (Pique-Vinaigre) in The Mysteries of Paris.
[Here are some notes on the names that are used in this article.] Almost a thousand pages into his serialised …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Gigolo: Bold, Beautiful, Bizarre.
Is the best show that I have seen so far at this year’s Fringe a one-man play? This would be …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Incident Room.
New Diorama Theatre’s “The Incident Room” is currently showing at the Pleasance Courtyard. It investigates an investigation, namely the West …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Stander Gang.
Me, My Friends and I are a young theatrical start-up from Sussex. The “Me” and the “I” here refer to …
Podcast Review: The Deca Tapes.
[The following contains spoilers.] It is surely as inevitable as the twenty-second century that we will be able to one …
Great Goodness.
It was so early in the morning that the light seemed to sting like antiseptic. The boy detective was crossing …
Podcast Review: Mind’s Eye.
[The following contains spoilers.] Sometimes a mess can be so entertaining and such an oddity that you suspect that it …
Jaws Sprung.
When Amir woke that morning, the first thing that he did was to lie in his bedsheets and listen to …
Murderer.
Army in Place.
There were seven McSweenies in all. By now, all of them were men – the youngest was twenty-one and the …
