Masters Of Mystery And Detective Fiction
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| Author | : Curtis Evans |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2014-01-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0786490896 |
In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as "Humdrums," condemning their focus on puzzle plots over stylish writing and explorations of character, setting and theme. This volume explores the works of three prominent British "Humdrums"--Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Alfred Walter Stewart--revealing their work to be more complex, as puzzles and as social documents, than Symons allowed. By championing the intrinsic merit of these mystery writers, the study demonstrates that reintegrating the "Humdrums" into mystery genre studies provides a fuller understanding of the Golden Age of detective fiction and its aftermath.
| Author | : J. Randolph Cox |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : |
For more than a century, the mystery and detective story has been among the most popular forms of fiction in bookstores and libraries. Some writers (Edgar Allan Poe or Dashiell Hammett, for example) have attracted a considerable body of critical response; others have been the focus of less scrutiny. This bibliography is intended for the student, general reader, or mystery buff who needs some basic information about the mystery genre and its representative authors. Selective, rather than exhaustive, it serves as an introduction. Entries on the life and work of seventy-five writers from Margery Allingham, Raymond Chandler, and Amanda Cross to P.D. James, John D. MacDonald, Edgar Allan Poe, Ellery Queen, and Georges Simenon appear.
| Author | : Fiona Kelleghan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 757 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
| ISBN | : |
Essays taken from Salem Press's Critical survey of mystery and detective fiction, published in 1988.
| Author | : Fiona Kelleghan |
| Publisher | : Magill's Choice |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
This collection surveys 100 of the writerswho have made the most lasting contributionsto the genre. Most articles are 2,500words, with longer articles on such majorfigures as Raymond Chandler, DashiellHammett, Ellery Queen and Rex Stout.Handy, ready-reference listings aredesigned to accommodate the uniquecharacteristics of mystery and detectivefiction, including author?s pseudonyms,types of plots, principal series and principalseries characters, and even a glossaryof terms peculiar to the genre.Reference elements include a complete,up-to-date list of authors? works, a glossaryof mystery and detective fiction terms,annotated bibliographies, a time line, anindex of series characters and a list ofauthors by plot type.
| Author | : Henry Douglas Thomson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
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| Author | : H. Douglas Thomson |
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| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1937 |
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| Author | : Ruth Rendell |
| Publisher | : Fawcett |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2012-11-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307829510 |
Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . .
| Author | : Fiona Kelleghan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 757 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Martin Radcliffe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 574 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Renowned Victorians such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were the pioneers of crime and detective fiction, but they were by no means alone. In this definitive collection, mystery critic and historian Martin Radcliffe delves into the archives and presents some of the best and most influential short stories of the Victorian and Edwardian years. These are the tales of Masters (and Mistresses) of Mystery that inspired generations of writers and led to the creation of renowned detectives such as Lord Peter Wimsey, Sam Spade, Miss Marple, Lew Archer, Morse, Dalgliesh and Rebus.
| Author | : J. Randolph Cox |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780810828049 |
For more than a century, the mystery and detective story has been among the most popular forms of fiction in bookstores and libraries. Some writers (Edgar Allan Poe or Dashiell Hammett, for example) have attracted a considerable body of critical response; others have been the focus of less scrutiny. This bibliography is intended for the student, general reader, or mystery buff who needs some basic information about the mystery genre and its representative authors. Selective, rather than exhaustive, it serves as an introduction. Entries on the life and work of seventy-five writers from Margery Allingham, Raymond Chandler, and Amanda Cross to P.D. James, John D. MacDonald, Edgar Allan Poe, Ellery Queen, and Georges Simenon appear.
