Murder she wrote
2010; BMJ; Volume: 340; Issue: mar18 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.c1469
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Themes in Literature Analysis
ResumoLiterature, like the living world, can be divided into kingdoms, orders, families, genera, species, and even subspecies. For example, there is the kingdom prose; the order fiction; the family novels; the genus murder detection; the species the English golden age of detective stories; and the subspecies murders that take place in prep schools. No doubt a Freudian might say that the very existence of such a subspecies is indicative of English attitudes to children or to education—or, of course, to both. One detective story in which the murder takes place in a prep school is Murder at Half-Term , first published in 1939, by Josephine Bell, the pen …
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