Ruritania by the Sea

dc.contributor.authorHudácskó, Brigitta
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-29T11:00:57Z
dc.date.available2021-06-29T11:00:57Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-01
dc.description.abstractSeaside resorts frequently served as locations of murder mysteries in Golden Age detection fiction, since these destinations could provide a diverse clientele, confined to manageably small groups essential to classic detective stories. The fictional seaside town of Wilvercombe serves as the location of Dorothy L. Sayers’s detective novel Have His Carcase (1932), in which Lord Peter Wimsey and detective-story writer Harriet Vane investigate the case of a man found dead on the beach. The location of the body turns out to be a source of confusion: while the detectives expect a traditional locked-room mystery to unfold (albeit in an open-air setting), the death cannot be resolved until the detectives realize that they are working in the wrong genre: instead of a clue-puzzle mystery, they are trapped in a Ruritanian romance, with outlandish tales of intrigue, unlikely members of the Russian aristocracy, and exaggerated and oppressive performances of heterosexual romance. (BH)en
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dc.identifier.citationHungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 27 No. 1 (2021) ,
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.30608/HJEAS/2021/27/1/5
dc.identifier.eissn2732-0421
dc.identifier.issn1218-7364
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.jtitleHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/318700en
dc.identifier.volume27
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/9542
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.subjectGolden Age detective fictionen
dc.subjectBritish middlebrow fictionen
dc.subjectDorothy L. Sayersen
dc.subjectRuritanian novelen
dc.subjectseaside resortsen
dc.titleRuritania by the Seaen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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