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Author : Jon L. Breen
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000041583877
Identifies and annotates 239 books about mystery and detective fiction published through the end of 1981.
Author : J. Randolph Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:49015003032563
For more than a century, the mystery and detective story has been among the most popular forms of fiction in bookstores and libraries. Some writers (Edgar Allan Poe or Dashiell Hammett, for example) have attracted a considerable body of critical response; others have been the focus of less scrutiny. This bibliography is intended for the student, general reader, or mystery buff who needs some basic information about the mystery genre and its representative authors. Selective, rather than exhaustive, it serves as an introduction. Entries on the life and work of seventy-five writers from Margery Allingham, Raymond Chandler, and Amanda Cross to P.D. James, John D. MacDonald, Edgar Allan Poe, Ellery Queen, and Georges Simenon appear.
Author : Curtis Evans
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786490899
In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as "Humdrums," condemning their focus on puzzle plots over stylish writing and explorations of character, setting and theme. This volume explores the works of three prominent British "Humdrums"--Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Alfred Walter Stewart--revealing their work to be more complex, as puzzles and as social documents, than Symons allowed. By championing the intrinsic merit of these mystery writers, the study demonstrates that reintegrating the "Humdrums" into mystery genre studies provides a fuller understanding of the Golden Age of detective fiction and its aftermath.
Author : Henry Douglas Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0849005922
Author : Fiona Kelleghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : OCLC:872422646
Author : H. Douglas Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:500006121
Author : Salem Press,Fiona Kelleghan,Roger Guenveur Smith
Publisher : Magill's Choice
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0893569585
100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction is a response to the growing attention paid to genre fiction in schools and universities. Since Edgar Allan Poe invented the modern mystery story in the mid-19th century, the number of authors writing in this field has steadily grown, as have the appetites of growing numbers of readers. This collection surveys 100 of the writers who have made the most lasting contributions to the genre, covering such major figures as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ellery Queen, and Rex Stout.Articles range in length from 2,500 to 6,000 words and are organized in a format designed to provide quick access to information. Handy ready-reference listings are designed to accommodate the unique characteristics of the mystery/detective fiction genre, including author's pseudonyms, types of plots, principal series and principal series characters, and even a glossary of terms peculiar to the genre. Ready-reference data at the top of each article include the author's name, birth and death information. A "Contribution" section pinpoints each author's impact on the genre. The "Biography" section offers a concise overview of the author's life, and the "Analysis" section, the core of each article, examines the author's most representative works. A bibliography at the end of each article lists the author's works chronologically both within and outside of the genre.
Author : Fiona Kelleghan
Publisher : Magill's Choice
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:49015002922228
This collection surveys 100 of the writerswho have made the most lasting contributionsto the genre. Most articles are 2,500words, with longer articles on such majorfigures as Raymond Chandler, DashiellHammett, Ellery Queen and Rex Stout.Handy, ready-reference listings aredesigned to accommodate the uniquecharacteristics of mystery and detectivefiction, including author?s pseudonyms,types of plots, principal series and principalseries characters, and even a glossaryof terms peculiar to the genre.Reference elements include a complete,up-to-date list of authors? works, a glossaryof mystery and detective fiction terms,annotated bibliographies, a time line, anindex of series characters and a list ofauthors by plot type.
Author : J. Randolph Cox
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810828049
For more than a century, the mystery and detective story has been among the most popular forms of fiction in bookstores and libraries. Some writers (Edgar Allan Poe or Dashiell Hammett, for example) have attracted a considerable body of critical response; others have been the focus of less scrutiny. This bibliography is intended for the student, general reader, or mystery buff who needs some basic information about the mystery genre and its representative authors. Selective, rather than exhaustive, it serves as an introduction. Entries on the life and work of seventy-five writers from Margery Allingham, Raymond Chandler, and Amanda Cross to P.D. James, John D. MacDonald, Edgar Allan Poe, Ellery Queen, and Georges Simenon appear.
Author : Laird R. Blackwell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476670690
H.C. Bailey's detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several popular archetypes--the eccentric logician, the forensic investigator, the hard-boiled interrogator, the psychological profiler, the defender of justice. This critical study examines the Fortune stories in the context of other popular detective fiction of the era. Bailey's classics are distinguished by well-clued puzzles, brilliant sleuthing, vivid description and social critique, with Fortune evoking images of Don Quixote and the Arthurian Knights in his pursuit of truth and justice in an uncaring world.
Author : Martin Radcliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114142032
Renowned Victorians such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were the pioneers of crime and detective fiction, but they were by no means alone. In this definitive collection, mystery critic and historian Martin Radcliffe delves into the archives and presents some of the best and most influential short stories of the Victorian and Edwardian years. These are the tales of Masters (and Mistresses) of Mystery that inspired generations of writers and led to the creation of renowned detectives such as Lord Peter Wimsey, Sam Spade, Miss Marple, Lew Archer, Morse, Dalgliesh and Rebus.
Author : Larry Landrum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313003271
Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of the genre and its historical development over the past two centuries. Critical approaches covered in the volume include story as game, images, myth criticism, formalism and structuralism, psychonalysis, Marxism and more. Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction. The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference. This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre. A chronology provides a helpful overview of the development and transformation of the genre.
Author : Arthur Benjamin Reeve,John W. Grey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104661330
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Donald E. Westlake
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195104875
An anthology of detective fiction with examples of its sub-genres, armchair detective, the locked room and so on. The first is represented by Agatha Christie's In Blue Geranium, where the detective solves a crime from a conversation, the second by The Leopold Locked Room, in which a policeman is found in a locked room with his wife killed by his gun, but he didn't do it.
Author : Howard Brody
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781527564800
This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of one variant of the mystery story or novel—the use of a physician as the major detective. There is little difference between a medical “case study” and a mystery story. The book reviews the works of major authors, from R. Austin Freeman, Helen McCloy, Josephine Bell, and H.C. Bailey, to Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Aaron Elkins, and Colin Cotterill, with briefer reviews of minor authors. It also addresses historical (fictional) physician detectives, psychological detectives, and physician detective nonfiction. Physicians and health workers are avid readers of detective fiction and will welcome this volume, which addresses their specific interests. Its critical analysis of books that have long been viewed as central to detective fiction will also appeal to fans of the mystery story.