And Always a Detective
| Author | : R. F. Stewart |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
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The Oxford Book of Detective Stories
| Author | : Patricia Craig |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 587 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780192803719 |
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The field of detective fiction is vast, and The Oxford Book of Detective Stories brings together the best short fiction from around the world to show how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on the genre. As well as English and American stories from acknowledged masters such as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, and Agatha Christie, the anthology includes stories by Simenon, Conan Doyle, Sarah Paretsky, and Ian Rankin, and roams across Europe and further afield to embrace Japan, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth, locked-room mysteries are all here, and in her introduction Patricia Craig examines the figure of the detective in international literature.
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories
| Author | : Patricia Craig |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 554 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Detective and mystery stories, English |
| ISBN | : 9780192829689 |
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Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.
Talking About Detective Fiction
| Author | : P. D. James |
| Publisher | : Knopf Canada |
| Total Pages | : 143 |
| Release | : 2009-12-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 030739882X |
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P. D. James examines the genre of detective fiction from top to bottom, beginning with the mystery plots at the hearts of such novels as Great Expectations and Jane Eyre, and bringing us firmly into the present with such writers as Amanda Cross and Henning Mankell. Along the way she writes about Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Josephine Tey, among many others. She traces the facts of their lives into and out of their work; clarifies their individual styles; and gives us indelible portraits of the characters they've created: from Sherlock Holmes, "the unchallenged Great Detective," to Sara Paretsky's spunky, sexually liberated female investigator, V. I. Warshawski. She compares British and American "Golden Age" mystery writing, including the groundbreaking work of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. She discusses detective fiction as social history; the stylistic components of the genre; her own process of writing; how critics have reacted over the years (Edmund Wilson hated it, W.H. Auden was "addicted"); and what she sees as a renewal of detective stories—and of the detective hero—in recent years. Here is the perfect marriage of writer and subject—essential reading for every lover of detective fiction.
Latin American Detectives against Power
| Author | : Fabricio Tocco |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2022-04-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1793651655 |
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This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed by the Anglo-American canon, culminating in a transnational “poetics of failure” rooted in dissatisfaction with the neoliberal state.
Detective Fiction
| Author | : Charles J. Rzepka |
| Publisher | : Polity |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2005-09-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780745629421 |
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'Detective Fiction' is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood characters and texts of the modern day. Undergraduate students of Detective and Crime Fiction and of genre fiction in general, will find this book essential reading.
The Origins of the American Detective Story
| Author | : LeRoy Lad Panek |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2015-01-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0786481382 |
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Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were due to a combination of social conditions, including the rise and decline of the police as an institution; the parallel development of private detectives; the birth of the crusading newspaper reporter; and the beginnings of forensic science. Influential, too, was the new role model offered by a wildly popular British import named Sherlock Holmes. Focusing on the late 19th century and early 20th, this volume covers the formative years of American detective fiction. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge
| Author | : Antoine Dechêne |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2018-08-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 331994469X |
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This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting traditional detective story conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs – the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text – that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Analysing the works of a wide variety of authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James, this book is vital reading for scholars of detective fiction.
The Godwulf Manuscript
| Author | : Robert B. Parker |
| Publisher | : Dell |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2009-09-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 030756956X |
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New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillers—Book 1 in the series “The toughest, funniest, wisest, private eye in the field these days.”—Houston Chronicle Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest. The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn't finish his assignment soon, he could end up marked “D”—for dead.
The Dying Detective
| Author | : Leif GW Persson |
| Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2017-05-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307907643 |
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***WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION'S INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2017*** ***WINNER OF THE DANISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE (Best Crime Novel 2012)*** ***WINNER OF THE FINNISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' AWARD (Best Crime Novel 2012)*** ***WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY (Best Scandinavian Crime Novel 2011)*** ***WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' AWARD (Best Crime Novel of the Year 2010)*** LARS MARTIN JOHANSSON is a living legend. Cunning and perceptive, always one step ahead, he was known in the National Criminal Police as “the man who could see around corners.” But now Johansson is retired, living in the country, his police days behind him. Or so he thinks. After suffering a stroke, Johansson finds himself in the hospital. Tests show heart problems as well. And the only thing that can save him from despair is his doctor’s mention of an unsolved murder case from years before. The victim: an innocent nine-year-old girl. Johansson is determined to solve the case, no matter his condition. With the help of his assistant, Matilda, an amateur detective, and Max, an orphan with a personal stake in the case, he launches an informal investigation from his hospital bed. Racing against time, he uncovers a web of connections that links sex tourism to a dead opera singer and a self-made millionaire. And as Johansson draws closer to solving the crime, he finds that he will have to confront not just a mystery but his own mortality as well.
