Theme article
History of crime fiction
By: Johan Wopenka
Depending upon how one wishes to define the concept ‘crime fiction’, it is possible to trace its history and roots back in time. When Dorothy L. Sayers compiled her comprehensive three-volume anthology Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1928–34) she started with two stories from the Old Testament, and when Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee (alias Ellery Queen) wrote their fundamental The Detective Short Story : A Bibliography (1942), they listed eight Chinese collections of short stories which are believed to have been written down between 600 A.D. and 1800 A.D., some of them containing stories based on an older, oral tradition.
Literary figure
Christian Rønnes
Gender: Male
Little is known about his private life, but in the criminal investigation department in Trondheim everyone knows who he is: an honest, pleasant veteran who eventually retires in books by Fredrik Skagen, but who is still sought out for advice by his younger former colleagues. Christian Rønnes is a stable elderly gentleman, he thinks and acts sometimes rather slowly, but he sticks stubbornly at it ...