A note to students: Any material gathered from links here can only provide some background information. In this course, the work is very much up to you.

The nature of crime writing:

From an old fashioned writer comes 20 rules for writing detective stories:

http://www.mysteryinkonline.com/2005/01/twenty_rules_fo.html

 A more modern writer, Elmore Leonard, has 10 rules for writing crime fiction:

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1282819

*   An intro to different types of crime writing: http://hubpages.com/hub/

The-Killer-Guide-To-Writing-Crime-Fiction

Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost

• Wikipedia on Michael Ondaatje: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje
• Wikipedia on Anil's Ghost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil%27s_Ghost
• Interviews on Anil's Ghost:

http://www.powells.com/authors/ondaatje.html

http://www.themodernword.com/SCRIPTorium/ondaatje.html

• A British Council bibliography and assessment of Ondaatje's achievement: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth205 (scroll down towards the bottom of the page)

Tom Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound

• Wikipedia on Tom Stoppard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard

• A blog devoted to Stoppard: http://the-real-inspector-hound.blogspot.com/

• Wikipedia on The Real Inspector Hound: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Inspector_Hound

• Reactions to The Real Inspector Hound: http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/real_inspector_hound.html

• An analysis from Google books: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OCqlPK6PGvgC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=Tom+Stoppard+%22The+Real+Inspector+Hound%22+analysis&source=web&ots=s1mWqpGIww&sig=nbjbFAtOWo_q4OdqJmPr-N6LwWI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result

• Some lecture notes: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellpatke/En3203/EN3203Stoppard.htm

• A brief analysis: http://mural.uv.es/nilevy/The%20Real%20Inspector%20Hound.htm
  

Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window

On Alfred Hitchcock:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock

http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/05/hitchcock.html

• The script for Rear Window: http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Rear-Window.html

•  A transcript of the dialogue in Rear Window: http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/r/rear-window-script-transcript-hitchcock.html

• Online essays:

http://www.filmsite.org/rear.html

http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/2000/0200/000225.html

• An extensive image collection from Rear Window:

http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/hitchcock/wiki/1000_Frames_of_Rear_Window_(1954)

• Rear Window as an example of film noir:

http://bernardschopen.tripod.com/rearwindow.html

• On film adaptations with reference to Rear Window:

http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Academy-Awards-Crime-Films/Adaptation-GENRE-ADAPTATIONS-WESTERNS-CRIME-AND-FILM-NOIR.html

• An Online Hitchcock compendium:

http://www.hitchcockonline.org/

• Film techniques in Hitchcock films:

http://www.borgus.com/think/hitch.htm