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CS: It’s a very great pleasure to be here in conversation with you. We’ve agreed that we’ll talk in particular about the focus on the murdered body in your fiction, and especially about the troubling idea of murder as art form. We’ll also consider issues about description and perspective, and questions about morality. But perhaps we could begin by talking a bit about how you came to write detective fiction?
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P. D. James with Thomas A. Critchley, The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 (London, 1971).
W. H. Auden, ‘The Guilty Vicarage’ (1948), in The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939–1948, ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ, 2002), pp. 261–269.
T. A. Critchley, A History of Police in England and Wales 900–1966 (London, 1967).
George N. Dove, The Reader and the Detective Story (Madison, WI, 1997).
Thomas de Quincey, ‘Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’ (1827), in On Murder, ed. Robert Morrison, Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford, 2006), pp. 8–34.
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James, P.D., Saunders, C. (2009). Detective Fiction and the Body. In: Saunders, C., Maude, U., Macnaughton, J. (eds) The Body and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234000_11
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