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Death-driven Series
(Click to enlarge) The truth of French Crime Fiction series is death. Not Detection or investigation, not mystery, and not Police. What the series are about really, is death. Or at least, this is what...
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Profiling Crime Fiction Series
The question this post tries to answer visually is twofold, and runs as follows. Is it possible, first, to visualise the denotations and connotations carried in the titles of crime Fiction series...
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Death-driven Series : a quick comparison
(click to enlarge) The three leading series of Crime Fiction which were launched in France after the war are : “La Série Noire” (Gallimard, 1945-) ; “Un Mystère” (Presses de la Cité, 1949-1972) and...
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Punctuating Crime Fiction: a Comparison of 6886 Titles
(Total number of titles with exclamation marks, by series) The following pie charts represent the varied use of three types of punctuation signs in the titles of all the novels published in the...
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Whereabouts unknown
The Fleuve Noir “Special Police” Series was the most popular of all French Crime Fiction Series. It sold hundreds of millions of books and published 2075 different novels. Jean Cocteau was one of its...
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First of 2076 : inaugurating the Special Police Series
With thanks to Didier Poiret This novel by Jean Bruce is the first book published in the famous “Spécial Police” Fleuve Noir series. It was published in Paris in August 1949. This was four years...
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