Howard Engel’s novel Memory Book (2005), written after the author’s experience of stroke, critiques crime fiction’s platitudinous handling of memory and cognition. In tracing a brief history of memory in the genre and its reliance on popularised memory myths to construct the exceptional detective figure, this article considers alternative modes of detection that disavow the detective as the epistemic centre of the text.
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