Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection [2 volumes]
Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection [2 volumes]

Author: Mitzi M. Brunsdale

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-07-26

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13: 0313345317

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This book provides an introduction to 24 iconic figures, real and fictional, that have shaped the detective/mystery genre of popular literature. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes is an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection spans the history of the detective story with series of critical entries on the field's most evocative names, from the originator of the form, Edgar Allan Poe, to its first popular running character, Sherlock Holmes; from the Golden Age of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Charlie Chan—in fiction and films—to small screen heroes, such as Columbo and Jessica Fletcher. Also included are other accomplished practitioners of the craft of mystery/crime storytelling, including Agatha Christie, Tony Hillerman, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Tales of Mystery
Tales of Mystery

Author: Bill Pronzini

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780517618196

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Deliciously thrilling treasury of rare mysteries.

New Hard-boiled Writers, 1970s-1990s
New Hard-boiled Writers, 1970s-1990s

Author: LeRoy Panek

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780879728205

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"With an eye toward the origins and development of the hard-boiled story, LeRoy Lad Panek comments both on the way it has changed over the past three decades and examines the work of ten significant contemporary hardboiled writers. Chapters show how the new writers have used the hard-boiled story and the hard-boiled hero to make powerful statements about reality in the last quarter of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Comic Crime
Comic Crime

Author: Earl F. Bargainnier

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780879723842

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The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed. A major point highlighted by this book is simply that wit, slapstick. laughter, and an anything-can-happen motif appear in a significant amount of fiction about crime.

Genreflecting
Genreflecting

Author: Betty Rosenberg

Publisher: Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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