D.A. Mishani

D. A. Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, editor, and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction. His first detective novel, The Missing File, was published by Harper.


Articles by D.A. Mishani

Introducing Inspector Avraham Avraham

I can honestly say I was concerned by this “Mystery of the Hebrew Detective,” mainly before and after writing the ...

Can a Policeman be an Israeli Hero?

I’ll try to summarize the new problem of writing a detective in Hebrew in a simple way. The biography of ...

Detective Fiction and the Zionist Cultural Revolution

Below, D. A. Mishani continues where he left off yesterday: wondering about the evolution of popular literary genres in Israel ...

The Mystery of the Hebrew Detective: The Investigation Begins

So why is it so difficult to write a detective novel in Israel? Aren’t we supposed to be a literary culture that ...

The Mystery of the Hebrew Detective

How I came to read The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was only 8   My fascination with detectives started very ...