Come take a wrong turn down the dark alley of our crime fiction website. Dark webcomics and crime fiction abound. We can't promise you'll make it out the other side unchanged. Shotgun Honey | a blast of fiction to blow your mind. Needle: A Magazine of Noir | A Magazine of Noir. Let’s talk about sex. By: Joelle Charbonneau Yeah – I thought that would get your attention. Everyone knows that sex sells. You just have to look at advertising campaigns to see proof of that. Sex sells in fiction, too. The romance genre racks in billions of dollars in sales every year. Not that every romance is teeming with sex. Sex sells. And yet – as I look at my favorite mysteries and thrillers I realize that very few if any of them contain sex scenes.
Why? Personally, I think it’s because the pacing of a thriller or mystery doesn’t leave room for a lot of those scenes. Or maybe I’m wrong? Crime Fiction Database. Crime Fiction Dossier. Crimeculture. This section of Crimeculture includes introductions to many different aspects of crime and detective fiction, from the Victorian detective novel to the contemporary graphic novel.
The crimeculture site also includes numerous articles on crime and detective fiction. Our main introductory sections are: Victorian Detective Fiction: Christopher Pittard's analysis of the emergence of the detective story as a distinct genre in the nineteenth century, taking in the work of a large range of writers, including Vidocq, William Russell, Poe, Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Fergus Hume, Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, Grant Allen and L T Meade.
Classic Detective Fiction: A brief overview of the origins and development of classic detective fiction, at present providing brief discussions of the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison and R. Austin Freeman, and of the post-World War I "Golden Age" (e.g., Christie and Sayers). Classic Crime Fiction - Detective Fiction - Mystery Books Website.