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Paul French

  • Crime and the City: Kinshasa and the DRC

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    Paul French

    Kinshasa – capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Formerly Léopoldville under the bad days of Belgian colonialism, now one of the fastest growing megacities in the world…

  • Crime and the City: Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight

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    Paul French

    Portsmouth – known to the locals as “Pompey” – is, and has been for centuries, England’s largest Royal Navy base, 75 miles south of London in the country of…

  • Crime and the City: Monte Carlo

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    Paul French

    How could there not be a lot of crime in Monaco – a tightly packed nest of wealth, sex and power all in the sunshine of the Riviera. Officially…

  • The Ineffable Crimes of Lawrence Osborne

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    Paul French

    There are a number of authors who perilously straddle the line between the crime genre and literary fiction. They avoid easy genre definition and are often read more by…

  • Crime and the City: Las Vegas

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    Paul French

    Let’s go to Las Vegas with one of the great kings of the American hard-boiled Charles Willeford in his novel Wicked Wives (1956): ‘Once the sun comes up in…

  • Crime and the City: Hamburg

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    Paul French

    I think it’s fair to say that, in general, Hamburg is a rather underrated German city. Berlin and Munich get the crowds, Frankfurt the money, and Hamburg gets a…

  • Port-au-Prince: Crime Fiction as a Window into a Nation’s Soul

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    Paul French

    Haiti has never been an easy place to live. From colonialism to liberation by the ex-slave revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture at the start of the nineteenth century – the…

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