JOURNAL ARTICLE

The strange case of the resurgent whodunit.

  • Published In: TIME Magazine, 2023, v. 201, n. 7/8. P. 66 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Berman, Judy 3 of 3

Abstract

In a New Yorker essay published at the height of the whodunit craze in 1944, Edmund Wilson complained that Christie's "writing is of a mawkishness and banality which seem to me literally impossible to read." Upon receiving an invitation to "a night to die for", it dawns on him: "A circle of privileged suspects, a frame job, and now a cryptic invite evoking a British murder mystery. CHRISTIE, WITH HER idiosyncratic detectives and telegenic backdrops, still casts a tall shadow over the low-stakes whodunit. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:TIME Magazine. 2023/02, Vol. 201, Issue 7/8, p66
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0040-781X
  • Accession Number:161912875
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