Crime Fiction Alphabet: U is for Umberto Eco
Posted in Books, Crime Fiction Alphabet, Fiction on Mar 8th, 2010
This week’s letter in Kerrie’s Crime Fiction Alphabet series is ‘U’.
I’ve chosen Umberto Eco, an Italian writer of post-modern fiction, full of allusions and references, using puzzles, playing with language, words and symbols.
I’ve read The Name of the Rose twice, some years ago now.It is a fantastic historical crime mystery novel set in a Franciscan monastery in 14th [...]











