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Secret Service; Or, Recollections of a City Detective
Author | : Andrew Forrester |
Publisher | : Alpha Edition |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-09-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789357913294 |
Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Secret Service Or Recollections of a City Detective
Author | : Andrew Forrester |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2015-03-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781508903314 |
ABOUT twelve years ago there was an election anticipated in the Borough of N--. It was a notorious place for bribery, as I, who have been professionally concerned in many elections, perfectly well knew. It was an extraordinary town. It had once been a very flourishing place. A staple trade had been carried on there, and almost nowhere else; but an evil spirit of gentility pervaded its corporation in those days.
The Ascent of the Detective
Author | : Haia Shpayer-Makov |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0199577404 |
Explores the diverse and often arcane world of English police detectives during the formative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective branch established at Scotland Yard.
The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction
Author | : Lucy Andrew |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2021-07-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3030749894 |
This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role—either to act as the foil to the detective in order to accentuate their own abilities at solving crimes, or else to simply tell the story to the reader. Instead, essays in the collection explore the representations and functions of the detective’s sidekick across a range of forms and subgenres of crime fiction. By incorporating forms such as children’s detective fiction, comics and graphic novels and film and television alongside the more traditional fare of novels and short stories, this book aims to break down the boundaries that sometimes exist between these forms, using the sidekick as a defining thread to link them together into a wider conceptual argument that covers a broad range of crime narratives.
A Companion to Crime Fiction
Author | : Charles J. Rzepka |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2020-07-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1119675774 |
A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography
History of the United States Secret Service
Author | : La Fayette Curry Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Secret service |
ISBN | : |
Contains a personal narrative of L.C. Baker, an investigator and head of the National Detective Bureau (a forerunner of the U.S. Secret Service), for the United States during the U.S. Civil War.
The Woman in Red: a Romance
Author | : Joseph Stirling Coyne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Melodrama |
ISBN | : |
Nineteenth Century Detective Fiction
Author | : LeRoy Lad Panek |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2021-09-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476687528 |
In English and American cultures, detective fiction has a long and illustrious history. Its origins can be traced back to major developments in Anglo-American law, like the concept of circumstantial evidence and the rise of lawyers as heroic figures. Edgar Allen Poe's writings further fueled this cultural phenomenon, with the use of enigmas and conundrums in his detective stories, as well as the hunt-and-chase action of early police detective novels. Poe was only one staple of the genre, with detective fiction contributing to a thriving literary market that later influenced Arthur Conan Doyle's work. This text examines the emergence of short detective fiction in the nineteenth century, as well as the appearance of detectives in Victorian novels. It explores how the genre has captivated readers for centuries, with the chapters providing a framework for a more complete understanding of nineteenth-century detective fiction.