The Two Camps of Crime: Christie’s Cool, Cozy Tales of Ratiocination and Highsmith’s Psycho-Sexual Deep Waters ‹ CrimeReads

Look a little deeper, though-and far broader-and one can see the entirety of crime writing falling into either of two camps, each evolving out of sources that, for the most part, don't cross over.

Paramount examples of these camps of crime fiction can be found in the novels of Agatha Christie-and of Patricia Highsmith.

Having enjoyed both greatly, I would argue that, while Christie and Highsmith both provide pleasures, they do so in significantly different ways, and from different sources-let's even say the two writers work out of radically different DNA, and writers as well as readers of crime fiction would best be aware of that fact.