Tag Archives: detective fiction

Holmes and Lupin, a Comparison

By Robin Bates | Published: June 24, 2021

Netflix’s Lupin is based on Leblanc’s “gentleman burglar series,” which itself owes much to Sherlock Holmes.

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Robert Mueller as Peter Wimsey

By Robin Bates | Published: July 26, 2018

Much of the country is hoping that the Mueller investigation plays out like a Dorothy Sayers novel, with truth and justice prevailing in the end.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Collusions, Donald Trump, Dorothy Sayers, Five Red Herrings, soft-boiled detectives, Trump investigation | Comments closed

Sonia Sotomayor and Nancy Drew

By Robin Bates | Published: June 8, 2009

This week, with Sonia Sotomayor still in the news (although the firestorm that greeted her nomination has gone into temporary remission), I thought I’d devote my posts to supreme court justices and literature. This was inspired in part by an excellent New York Times article over the weekend on Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas (in which […]

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