Title
Cluedoing the Home: Crime Fiction and the Art of Internal Detection
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Investigates the use of domestic space in detective literature, concluding with a brief analysis of the bedroom in “The Killers.” Comments on the hopelessness of the wall imagery and Hemingway’s introduction of the tough guy prototype to crime fiction.
Published in
The House of Fiction as the House of Life: Representations of the House from Richardson to Woolf
Date
2012
Pages
204-217
COinS
Citation
Calanchi, Alessandra. “Cluedoing the Home: Crime Fiction and the Art of Internal Detection.” In The House of Fiction as the House of Life: Representations of the House from Richardson to Woolf, edited by Francesca Saggini and Anna Enrichetta Soccio, 204-17. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2012.