The colour green can be associated with many things - nature, growth, money and greed being some of them. But in the literary realm the colour green is often more closely associated with crime.
Dr Carolyn McKay is a visual artist, author and senior lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. She recently penned a piece for The Conversation, about how crime books embraced lurid green.
The Lurid: Crime Paperbacks and Pulp Fiction exhibition is on at the University of Sydney's Fisher Library & SciTech Library until 30 June 2020. Photo: University of Sydney
