How to Write a Detective Novel
The plots of detective novels work because they successfully engage the reader with an exciting yet plausible storyline. Writing detective fiction can allow writers with an eye for detail a chance to explore the darker parts of their imaginations ... [... more]
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Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science ...
 Book Description: This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America--from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain [... more]
$36.99
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The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory
The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory [... more]
$220.92
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Detective Fiction In Cuban Society And Culture
Detective Fiction In Cuban Society And Culture [... more]
$72.31
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Richard Masur
Robert B. Parker and his legendary Spenser series have long been considered the ne plus ultra of detective fiction. But the critics' praise for Jesse Stone's debut in Night Passage proved there was room for addition to the Parker literary canon. ... [... more]
Random House |
Reference Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction ...
Reference Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction (Reference Sources in the Humanities Series) [... more]
$2.99
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Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for ...
Popular fiction, with its capacity for diversion, can mask important cultural observations within a framework that is often overlooked in the academic world. Works thought to be merely escapist can often be more seriously mined for revelations regarding [... more]
$17.95
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Hard Boiled Detective Fiction
Hard Boiled Detective Fiction [... more]
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Modern Noir - Mystery Books
Noir came into the detective fiction genre in the late 1920's and early 1930's. Pronounced nwahr, noir was known for its gritty realistic fast-paced stories that contained an unrelenting gloom and fatalistic attitude in tone as well as among the ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction - Mystery Books
In the early 1920's British author, Agatha Christie, was instrumental in the rise of the cozy mystery genre during the Golden Age of detective fiction. During that time, Al Capone and other mobsters played a prominent role in the landscape of ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Detective Fiction (Cultural History of Literature)
a great summary, but not sure it's for students: This book is an excellent survey of the history of detective fiction, with a good theoretical discussion about the structure of detective fiction at the beginning, and a good mix of necessary historical [... more]
$24.95
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Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for ...
Detective themes+Chicana/o identity = engrossing: Combine detective fiction themes with Chicana/o identity discussions and a scholarly theme and you have an excellent blend of crime survey and the Latin culture in BROWN GUMSHOES: DETECTIVE FICTION AND [... more]
$17.95
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