The contributors of this volume pay tribute to and seek to account for the astonishing durability of the detective story as a genre. The essays take a variety of theoretical approaches and include detective fiction in languages other than English. Particular attention is paid to the "Golden Age" of English detective story writing and to the hard-boiled American version of the genre.
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Warren Chernaik is Emeritus Professor in English at the University of London. Martin Swales is Chair of German at University College, London.
Robert Vilain is Lecturer in German at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Robert Vilain is Lecturer in German at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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There have already been articles and essays written under the title of this chapter, referring to Poe's story 'The Mystery of Marie Roget', and its source and background, the unsolved murder of Mary Rogers of New York. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traditional detective fiction, spinster detective, generic stereotypes, fake medium, female sleuth, crime fiction, fraudulent mediums, armchair detective, detective novelist, woman detective, crime writing, detective figure, detective hero, railway travel, serial murder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Conan Doyle, Golden Age, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Selected Letters, Sara Paretsky, Kay Scarpetta, Lord Peter Wimsey, Patricia Cornwell, The Big Sleep, Unnatural Exposure, Father Brown, Harriet Vane, Miss Climpson, Patricia Highsmith, Ross Macdonald, The Art of the Mystery Story, Alice Mair, Dennis Porter, General Sternwood, Holy Fool, Kate Fansler, Lady Molly New!
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New York, Conan Doyle, Golden Age, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Selected Letters, Sara Paretsky, Kay Scarpetta, Lord Peter Wimsey, Patricia Cornwell, The Big Sleep, Unnatural Exposure, Father Brown, Harriet Vane, Miss Climpson, Patricia Highsmith, Ross Macdonald, The Art of the Mystery Story, Alice Mair, Dennis Porter, General Sternwood, Holy Fool, Kate Fansler, Lady Molly New!
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- Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell on 8 pages
- The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler on 7 pages
- Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, No. 8) by P. D. James on 6 pages
- Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries) by Dorothy L. Sayers on 6 pages
- The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays by Howard Haycraft on 4 pages
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- Methoden der Lösungsverschleierung in Detektivgeschichte und -roman: Ein systematisch-analytische Untersuchung an Beispielen aus der englischen und amerikanischen Detektivliteratur by Daniel Grunwald on page 139, and Back Matter
- Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 (The Nineteenth Century Series) by Joseph A. Kestner in Back Matter
- After Poststructuralism: Reading, Stories, Theory by Colin Davis in Back Matter
- Schoenberg and Words: The Modernist Years (Border Crossings) by Charlotte M. Cross in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Martin Priestman on page 150
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