The Art of Detective Fiction
Author: W. Chernaik
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2000-03-15
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780333746011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributors to this volume all pay tribute to, and seek to account for, the astonishing durability of the detective story as a narrative genre. The essays range generously, taking a variety of theoretical approaches and including detective fiction in languages other than English, but particular attention is paid to the `Golden Age' of English detective story writing and to the `hard-boiled' American version on the genre. This is a collection that will appeal to the scholar and to the devotee alike, to all those, in fact, who can never resist the lure of finding out whodunnit.