Interrogating The All-Knowing Detective Trope: Popular Memory Myths and Dismantling the Detective in Howard Engel’s Memory Book

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2024

Abstract

Howard Engel’s novel Memory Book (2005), written after the author’s experience of stroke, critiques crime fiction’s platitudinous handling of memory and cognition. In tracing a brief history of memory in the genre and its reliance on popularised memory myths to construct the exceptional detective figure, this article considers alternative modes of detection that disavow the detective as the epistemic centre of the text.

Journal Title

Crime Fiction Studies

Volume

5

Issue

2

First Page

197

Last Page

212

DOI

10.3366/cfs.2024.0124

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