Secrets of Crime Fiction Classics: Detecting the Delights of 21 Enduring Stories



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English | ISBN: 0786493984 | 2014 | 244 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Starting with William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective fiction--Poe's Dupin stories, Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Sayers' Strong Poison, Chandler's The Big Sleep, and Simenon's The Yellow Dog. Lesser-known but important early works are also discussed, including Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, Emile Gaboriau's Anna Katharine Green's and Fergus Hume's . More recent titles show increasing variety in the mystery genre, with Patricia Highsmith's criminal-focused and Chester Himes' African-American detectives in . Diversity develops further in Sara Paretsky's tough woman detective V.I. Warshawski in , Umberto Eco's medievalist and postmodern and the forensic feminism of Patricia Cornwell's . Notably, the best modern crime fiction has been primarily international--Manuel Vasquez Montalban's Catalan , Ian Rankin's Edinburgh-set , Sweden's Stieg Larsson's and Vikram Chanda's Mumbai-based . Instructors considering this book for use in a course may .
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