Abstract

This article addresses two novels that, seemingly or truly, realise the historical crime convention. One of the novels is Pan Whicher w Warszawie by Agnieszka Chodkowska-Gyurics and Tomasz Bochiński, and the other one is Carska roszada by Melchior Medard. Genre aspects of both works are considered, and the consequences the conventional location carries for the way in which the 19th century reality is constructed in both novels. Finally – despite the differences between them – in both crime novels, the Polish history of the 19th century is shaped via many elements; one of them is strong reliance on the discourse of romantic martyr-related provenance.