Colin Dexter died on the first day of Spring, 2017: March 21st. He was a good age, eighty-six years old. Most of his life was spent as a teacher, but Dexter will not be remembered primarily as an educator. He was the author of a series of intricate detective stories set in his native city …
It was always called Crime Fiction in the UK and Mystery Fiction in the USA. Then, along came the internet and definitions blurred. Dozens of linked genres and sub-genres muddy the waters. You have detective stories, murder mysteries, whodunnits, hardboiled, cosies, historical, noir, private detectives… The list is practically endless and overlaps all the time. It’s perfectly …