The Red Chesterfield
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| Author | Wayne Arthurson |
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| Genre | mystery |
| Publisher | University of Calgary Press |
Publication date | 2019 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| ISBN | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
The Red Chesterfield is the eighth novel from Canadian writer Wayne Arthurson.[1]
On May 22, 2020, the Crime Writers of Canada recognized The Red Chesterfield with the Arthur Ellis Award for the best crime novella of 2019.[2] The award comes with a $200 cash prize.[3]
During an interview with Shelagh Rogers Arthurson told her he used the novel to play with the tropes of the mystery genre.[1]
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"That genre trope around how [protagonists] always focus on the crime, regardless of what it does to their family — I wanted to mess with that. The mystery 'MacGuffin,' like the red chesterfield, usually would disappear after a while. I wanted it to appear again and again, to add a bit of magic realism to it. I wanted to play with that trope as well. I just tried different things."[1]
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