Commissario Guido Brunetti… The antithesis of detective clichés. According to the author, he is an extremely proper, intelligent, well-educated man. His tie is carefully tied. His hair…
These are the first sentences that introduced readers from all over the world to Martin Beck. This July is the July of 1965. And at that time Martin Beck, who became commissar in 1951 when he was 28 years old, is on duty at Stockholm Homicide Desk. He’s been married since 1951, the year he…
In Sue Turnbull’s volume The TV Crime Drama, an entire chapter titled “Women and crime” is dedicated to the relationships between the genre and gender issues, and in particular the question of gender equality. “Despite a perception that the television crime drama may be an inherently ‘masculine’ genre”, writes Turnbull, “women have played a key…
