Novellas Featuring The Fictional DetectiveThe Fictional Detective has gotten out of the Private Investigator game.
Instead, he's trying to write hard-boiled masterpieces such as Death Buys a Condo. But despite the fact that the door of his office now says ...
Anatomy of Murder identifies and explores three basic fictional forms dealing with murder and detectionmystery,
detective, and crime fiction. Mystery fiction takes place in a centered world, one whose most distinctive characteristic is motivation. Covering the forms of murder fiction, ...
In the hands of many of the great writers, the unravelling of mystery is only
one strand within a complex project. Other things get unravelled, too - the belief in a rationally explicable world, in the beneficent, ordering force of ...
Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is a lively series of case studies celebrating the
close relationship between detective fiction and the ghost story. It features many of the most famous authors from both genres including Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, ...
The National Book League was a precursor to the current Booktrust, and was set up
in 1924 by the Society of Bookmen in order to promote reading, particularly among the young. To that end, the NBL issued Reader's Guides on ...
A serial killer is on the loose in Naples, Florida, an enclave of wealth and
privilege on the Southwest Gulf Coast. At first, the murders have been disguised as accidents, but when Police Chief Wade Hansen becomes suspicious, Mayor Charles ...
Names such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Sam Spade are perhaps better known than
the names of the authors who created them. The woman detective has also had worldwide appeal; yet, with the exception of Christie's Miss Marple, the ...
Mystery fiction, although essentially the same in all its national varieties, nevertheless comes in several
types and several wrappings. The present study of American, Australian, and Canadian detective fiction concerns literature which speaks in the ways of heroes and humanities ...