Senior: 11 & 12: Unit 3: Crime Stories

• The Dry: study guide ((SuperSummary subscription)

• The Dry: A novel study guide (Book Rags)

• The Dry (Harper) (LitLovers)

• The Dry (Pan Macmillan Booklover Notes)

• ‘The Dry,’ a Page-Turner of a Mystery Set in a Parched Australia (New York Times)

• The Dry Discussion Questions (Mentor Public Library)

• Jane Harper's tidal wave of a novel (Publisher's Weekly)

• The Dry by Jane Harper -- an absorbing crime debut (The Financial Times)

• Slow burn suspense (The Australian Financial Review)

• Review 'The Dry' by Jane Harper (Thoughts on Papyrus)

• Book review: 'The Dry' (Like Telling the Truth)

• 'The Dry' reading group guide (Macmillan)

• Detective story narrative genre (Britannica.com)

• Detective fiction (Wikipedia)

• Fictional detectives (Wikipeia)

• The conventions of crime fiction (Starkey's English Extension)

• The conventions of crime fiction (Jennifer Purrsell - Prezi)

• Crime Genre: Justice and Injustice Stories of Mystery and Intrigue (Story Grid)

• Crime genre essay (TSFX)

• The conventions of crime fiction (Nebo-Lit)

• Crime fiction genre has an enduring appeal with modern audiences (Prezi) 

• The strange appeal of crime fiction (Shots Crime and Thriller eZine)

• The conventions of crime fiction, or why we like detective fiction: Hercule Poirot's 'Christmas' (Jesuit Grammar School)

• The genderization of crime fiction from the Victorian era to the modern day (University of Puget Sound)

• Stereotypes, Tropes, and Archetypes(Tale Foundry)

• The detective archetype (Wild Gratitude)

• The detective (Archetypes.com - Visionary Family) 

• Archetype: Detective (Superpower Wiki

• 5 Archetypes of Fictional Detectives (Lady Jabberwocky)

• Sherlock Holmes and the Detective Archetype  (Medium.com)

• Sherlock Holmes: The archetype of the detective (Seton Catholic College)

• From Poe to Auster: Literary experimentation in the detective story genre (PhD dissertation The Temple University) 

• From Falling Beams to Fallen Souls : The Ethical Development of the Hard-Boiled Detective Novel (Loma Linda University)

• The wasteland and the Grail Knight: Myth and Cultural Criticism in Detective Fiction (Clues - A Journal of Detection)

• Copycat Crimes: Crime Fiction and the Marketplace of Anxieties (Gustavus Adolphus College)

• How crime dramas expose our anxieties about those on the frontline (The Conversation)

• The mark of naivety: Modern ideas of public trust fuel a recent crop of crime fiction (The  Times Literary Supplement)

• Authority, Social Anxiety and the Body in Crime Fiction: Patricia Cornwell's 'Unnatural Exposure' (Springer Link)

• Sherlock Holmes, crime, and the anxieties of globalization (Critical Review)

• Women's appetite for explicit crime fiction is no mystery (The Guardian)

• In the shadow of anxiety: The Detective Fiction of Akimitsu Takagi and Seichō Matsumoto and the Japanese Post-war Experience (M. Negrych)

• Murder she rewrote: Redefining the female presence in crime fiction (University of Dayton)

• The femme fatale and male anxiety in 20th century American literature, 'hard-boiled' crime fiction, and film noir  (State University of New York - Dissertation)

• “To Start: I Should Never Have Been Born”: The Antiheroine as Stranger in Gillian Flynn’s 'Sharp Objects' and 'Gone Girl' (Papers on Language and Literature)

• The contemporary fictional police detective as critical security analyst: Insecurity and immigration in the novels of Henning Mankell and Andrea Camilleri (University of Quebec)

• The Journalist as a Detective: The Media Insights and Critique in Post-1991 American, Russian and Swedish Crime Novels (Journalism Studies)

• Strangers and Trespassers in Contemporary Women’s Crime Fiction (2000-2020) (Papers on Language & Literature)

• Watching the Detective: Sherlock , Surveillance, and British Fears Post-7/7†  (The Journal of Popular Culture)

• Review: ‘Sherlock’ Returns, Tracking a Smasher of Thatcher Busts (New York Times)

• Sherlock series (Rotten Tomatoes)

• Sherlock TV series review (Plugged In)

• Sherlock: the great game review (Den of Geek)

• The fatal flaw of BBC's 'Sherlock' (GQ)

• ‘Sherlock’ Review: ‘The Final Problem’ Proves to Be A Problematic Season Finale (Indie Wire)

• Sherlock - 4 series (University of Southern California)

• Sherlock review – Cumberbatch channels Bond in the most explosive outing yet (The Guardian)

• Sherlock series 4: The most furiously outraged critics (iNews)

• 10 reasons why 'Sherlock' is terrible TV (Culture Trip)

• Analysis: Sherlock (TV Ropes)

• 5 mistakes Sherlock made in its journey from high entertainment to convoluted spectacle (Vox)

• Analysing ideological themes in BBC's 'Sherlock' (Adademia.com)

• Queer (Mis)recognition in the BBC’s Sherlock (Academia.com)

• The New Sexy: A Rhetorical Analysis of Sherlock (Academia.com)

• Sherlock (BBC) and the Fear of Technology (Academia.com)

• The truth will set you free: Implicit faith in 'Sherlock' and 'London Spy' (Academia.com)

• The white man at the centre of the world: Masculinity in 'Sherlock' (JSTOR data base)

• The power of characterization: A comparative analysis of the transformative works created by the English-language and Japanese-language fandoms of BBC's 'Sherlock' (Stockholm University) Particularly note pp. 18-23.

• Flouting Maxim in BBC Series “Sherlock: A Study In Pink” (Udayana University)

• Is Sherlock really that observant? A qualitative study of the relation between non-observances of conversational maxims and characterization in the TV-series Sherlock (Karlstads University

This review is 1hr 50 mins long, so skip through mention of Dr Who and Jekyll and Hyde.

TRIGGER WARNING! There is some bad language involved in this review!

These are the sections:
Part 1: The story of Steven Moffat (the writer)  (at 3mins 14sec.)

Part 2: Overarching plot (at 8mins. 12sec.)

Part 3: Sherlock the all-important ubermensch (27.46)

Part 4: Moriarty (39.19)

Part 5: Aesthetics or How to waste licence-payer money (46.58)