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CHARACTERS COME TO LIFE IN NORWEGIAN MURDER MYSTERY `DON'T LOOK BACK'

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040324
Author:Kevin O'Kelly, Globe Correspondent

Scanning bookstore shelves, it's easy to believe that Anglo- Saxons have a monopoly on the mystery genre.

Edgar Allan Poe created the detective story with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens further developed the mystery novel, and the modern whodunit with a recurring detective came into full bloom in 1881, when Poe enthusiast Arthur Conan Doyle introduced the world to Sherlock Holmes with "A Study in Scarlet." Ransacking my memory and polling my friends who read mysteries, I came up with a list of almost exclusively British and American authors (and ...

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