Monday, January 19, 2026

Maps in mystery fiction.

As The Map Room blog points out, an article by Axel Bax et al. (Cornell University) in Computational Humanities Research 2025 that takes a deep dive into the presence of maps in fiction indicates—probably to no surprise of mystery fans—that "small-scale maps often were in the detective/mystery genre." 

Map from Anna Katharine Green's Lost Man's Lane (1899)

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