Claire DeWitt's personal loss and blackout hours make her weirdly compelling
- Written by Peter Doyle, Associate Professor of Media, Macquarie University

In a new series, writers pay tribute to fictional detectives on the page and on screen.
I’ve always preferred my fictional detectives on the weirder side.
Like the sour-tempered narrator of Derek Raymond’s Factory Series. Everyone hates the bloke. But not as much as he hates them back. (He calmly addresses...