What Hitchcock Taught Us about Whodunnits by Dominique Sipière

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From St Winifred’s Translation to Medieval Whodunnit: Ellis Peters and the Cadfael Chronicles by Catherine Lanone

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Twists and Turns in Crime Fiction—Peter Lovesey’s “Youdunnit” and Max Dorra’s “Thou shalt kill” by François Gallix

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A Gothic heterotopia: four Anglophone responses to Venice by John Thieme

“…It pursues this line of thinking in relation to four Anglophone representations of Venice: the recent film A Haunting in Venice (2023), directed by Kenneth Branagh and scripted by Michael Green, which is very loosely adapted from Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party (1969), and which subjects the whodunnit genre to a Gothic makeover, Daphne du Maurier’s short story ‘Don’t Look Now’ (1971) and Nicolas Roeg’s film adaptation (1973) of it, in which the Gothic particularly manifests itself in the form of psychic precognition, and Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island (2019), in which an ostensibly realistic novel is infiltrated by recurrent paranormal elements, several of which are occasioned by the ‘unnaturalness’ of climate change. …”
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The Walk of Guilt: Multimodal Deception Detection from Nonverbal Motion Behaviour by Sharifa Alghowinem, Sabrina Caldwell, Ibrahim Radwan, Michael Wagner, Tom Gedeon

“…Using the video recording of walking from the Whodunnit deception dataset, which contains 49 subjects performing scenarios that elicit deceptive behaviour, we conduct multimodal two-category (guilty/not guilty) subject-independent classification. …”
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Deduction and Geography in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet by Andréas Pichler

“…Geography relies on tangible scientific information while detective novels create mysteries around whodunnits, notably with Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes adventures. …”
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