by Jon Wilkins | Dec 11, 2020 | Crime Conference Paper, Words, Words in Progress
A presentation I made at an Agatha Christie conference last year: Tommy and Tuppence: How can TV get them so wrong? I only have to think ABC and I shudder. What were they thinking? Poirot needs a makeover let’s make him a priest responsible for the death of dozens of...
by Jon Wilkins | Jul 4, 2018 | Crime Conference Paper, Words, Words in Progress
I gave this paper at Captivating Criminality 2017 at Bath Spa University: Mrs Paschal, Miss Gladden and Miss Brooke: Ordinary women, extraordinary Detectives. As Stephen Knight writes in “Crime Fiction Since 1800: Detection, Death, Diversity,” ‘…the creators of the...
by Jon Wilkins | Jul 4, 2018 | Crime Conference Paper, Words, Words in Progress
This was a paper I gave at the Criminal Heritage: Crime, fiction, and History Conference at Leeds Beckett University. It’s rather a pretentious title, but it does involve one of my favourite crime fighters Maisie Dobbs. Her creator Jacqueline Winspear is a very...
by Jon Wilkins | Jul 1, 2018 | Crime Conference Paper, Words, Words in Progress
I presented this paper at the Noir in the North, University of Iceland crime fiction conference in Reykajvik in 2016. Many wonderful experiences during this visit. Iceland is amazing. It was so cold, but what a beautiful cold. The scenery was incredible. a fabulous...
by Jon Wilkins | Jun 30, 2018 | Crime Conference Paper, Words, Words in Progress
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