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Julian Gustave Symons was a prolific writer, critic, poet, historian and author of award-winning crime novels and stories. His crime fiction focuses on motivation and psychology rather than detection as such and his obituary in the New York Times quotes him expressing an interest in ‘violence behind respectable faces, the civil servant planning how to kill Jews most efficiently, the judge speaking with passion about the need for capital punishment, the quiet obedient boy who kills for fun’. As a novelist and as a critic of the genre Symons was instrumental in establishing crime and detective fiction as a serious literary art form. |
