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
Hilke Thorhus
Gender: Female
Strong, physically fit, independent, tough diver, and the main character in two thriller-like novels by Norwegian (female) writer Kim Småge. Little is revealed about the person Hilke Thorhus and her background, but she was born in northern Norway, has a more-or-less permanent relationship with her boyfriend Vidar, and is close to her maternal grandparents. She has strong views and is a pioneer ...