McDermid, Val, and Jennifer Morag Henderson. “Foreword”. Josephine Tey, a life, Sandstone Press, 2015, p. xvii - xix.
Val McDermid
Standard Name: McDermid, Val
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Anthologization | Hilary Mantel | With many others including Charlotte Bingham
, Edwina Currie
, Helen Dunmore
, Nicci Gerrard
, Wendy Holden
, David Lodge
, Val McDermid
, Joanna Trollope
, Lynne Truss
, and Salley Vickers
,... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC
has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels... |
Literary responses | Josephine Tey | Later crime writer Val McDermid
discovered this novel, her first by Tey, as a revelation: modern, nuanced, unformulaic, it was unlike its contemporaries but in tune with some successors, like Patricia Highsmith
and Ruth Rendell |
Reception | Susan Ferrier | For most of the month of January 2018, crime-writer Val McDermid
, under the auspices of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, created a city-wide project called New Year's Resurrection consisting of scenes, at twelve sites... |
Reception | Ruth Rendell | Some commentators, like Joan Smith
and Val McDermid
, feel that her consummate artistry was insufficiently appreciated, either because of her gender, or her prolific output, or because she is typecast as a writer of... |
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