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The war in words
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Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola |
xxxiv, 363 pages : 24 cm |
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Before Sherlock Holmes
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LeRoy Panek |
"This volume surveys the first fifty years of the detective story in nineteenth-century America and England, examining not only major works, but also the lesser known--including contemporary pseudo-b… |
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The mysteries of the cities
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Stephen Thomas Knight |
"A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which sought to… |
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Nice and Noir
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Richard B. Schwartz |
"Owners of mystery bookshops will tell you that there are several sorts of buyers: those who purchase on impulse or whim; genre addicts who buy paperbacks by the week and by the armful; and those who… |
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The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing
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Rosemary Herbert,John M. Reilly,Catherine Aird |
"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major de… |
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Italian pulp fiction
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Stefania Lucamante |
"This volume attempts to provide an analytical, structured context for and a critical approach to the Giovani Cannibali movement that takes into account how the changing cultural and social landscape… |
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Murderesses in German writing, 1720-1860
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Susanne Kord |
ix, 266 pages : 24 cm |
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Pimping fictions
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Justin Gifford |
Gifford provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperbacks written by Chester Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others. He draws from an impressiv… |
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Les criminels dans l'art et la littérature
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Ferri, Enrico |
Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. |
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Patricia Highsmith
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Harrison, Russell |
In this, the first full-length critical study of Patricia Highsmith's literary achievements, Russell Harrison offers a thoughtful consideration of the most successful and representative of the writer… |
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A common spring
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Nadya Aisenberg |
Nadya Aisenberg discusses the potentialities of the crime novel, its implications, principles, and scope, and its analogy ot myth and the fairy tale. She proposes that the detective story and the thr… |
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Serial killer cinema
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Robert Cettl |
"The release of Silence of the Lambs in 1991, which swept the major Academy Awards categories, legitimized the serial killer movie, a genre that dates back as far as the silent era. From Absence of t… |
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The Bedside Companion to Crime
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H. R. F. Keating |
Gathering together hundreds of facts and foibles from the world of crime writing, a veteran mystery expert displays his knowledge of this genre |
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