ABSTRACT
This case study reads Agatha Christie’s 1949 Crooked House through two major criminological lenses. First, it reads the text from the perspective of victimology, examining the way a single crime has a pronounced impact on both individuals and society in general. Second, it offers a bio-social reading of the behaviour of the novel’s perpetrator that considers both a potential genetic pre-disposition towards crime, as well as a range of social and environmental factors that facilitate or precipitate criminal action.
