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The Geographical Review July 1998, Vol. 88 (3), pp. 413-428 STRANGE COUNTRIES AND SECRET WORLDS IN RUTH RENDELL'S CRIME NOVELS LISA KADONAGA ABSTRACT: Mystery novels and academic geography have not often intersected. Yet crime fiction can incorporate spatial relationships and real-life regional characteristics. In recent decades, mysteries have been freed from the long tradition of presenting elaborate puzzles,and now they feature human interactions in realistic settings. Writers like Ruth Rendell integrate place into their character development and plot lines. Rendell depicts changing urban landscapes in late twentieth-century England and effectively explores contemporary British culture. Keywords: England, landscape change, literary geography, mysteries, place, territoriality MS. KADONAGA is a doctoral candidate in geography at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3P5.