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Pages: 240
Authors: Stephen Knight
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. Knight explains how
Crime Fiction since 1800
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Authors: Stephen Knight
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-09 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nin
The Notting Hill Mystery
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Authors: Charles Felix
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-17 - Publisher: e-artnow

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Source documents compiled by insurance investigator Ralph Henderson are used to build a case against Baron "R___", who is suspected of murdering his wife. The b
Irish Crime Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Brian Cliff
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-19 - Publisher: Springer

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This book examines the recent expansion of Ireland's literary tradition to include home-grown crime fiction. It surveys the wave of books that use genre structu
The Origins of the American Detective Story
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: LeRoy Lad Panek
Categories: Literary Criticism
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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 Ameri