“No Picturesque Village is Safe”: Agatha Christie’s Cornish Crime Scenes in “The Blood-Stained Pavement” and “Ingots of Gold”

Beyer, Charlotte ORCID: 0000-0002-2701-5443 (2023) “No Picturesque Village is Safe”: Agatha Christie’s Cornish Crime Scenes in “The Blood-Stained Pavement” and “Ingots of Gold”. Clues: A Journal of Detection, 41 (1). pp. 95-105.

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Abstract

This article explores Agatha Christie's representations of Cornwall and Cornish crime scenes in two crime short stories, "The Blood-Stained Pavement" (1928) and "Ingots of Gold" (1928). The author argues that Christie looks behind popular cultural representations of Cornwall, uncovering dark tourism, heritage crime, histories of oppression, misogynist violence, and murder.

Item Type:	Article
Article Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Crime scenes in fiction; Cornwall, England; Agatha Christie
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PR English literature P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR111 Women authors P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR401 Modern > PR471 20th century
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts
Research Priority Areas:	Culture, Continuity, and Transformation
Depositing User:	Charlotte Beyer
Date Deposited:	12 Jan 2023 11:42
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2023 10:48
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/11257

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