Sleuths Sidekicks And Stooges

Author : Joseph Green,Jim Finch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UIUC:30112003868079

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Sleuths, Sidekicks and Stooges by Joseph Green,Jim Finch Pdf

This reference work on British and American crime, mystery and adventure fiction in English contains 7,000 entries, listed alphabetically by detective, providing information about sleuths, their sidekicks and their rivals. A broad definition of detective is used encompassing Batman, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Nero Wolfe and Hercule Poirot.

Author : Lucy Andrew,Samuel Saunders
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030749897

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The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction by Lucy Andrew,Samuel Saunders Pdf

This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role—either to act as the foil to the detective in order to accentuate their own abilities at solving crimes, or else to simply tell the story to the reader. Instead, essays in the collection explore the representations and functions of the detective’s sidekick across a range of forms and subgenres of crime fiction. By incorporating forms such as children’s detective fiction, comics and graphic novels and film and television alongside the more traditional fare of novels and short stories, this book aims to break down the boundaries that sometimes exist between these forms, using the sidekick as a defining thread to link them together into a wider conceptual argument that covers a broad range of crime narratives.

Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137020215

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Crime Fiction since 1800 by Stephen Knight Pdf

Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern. Stephen Knight's fascinating book is a comprehensive analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre have evolved, explores a range of authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts – the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The expanded second edition has been thoroughly updated in the light of recent research and new developments, such as ethnic crime fiction, the rise of thrillers in the serial-killer and urban collapse modes, and feel-good 'cozies'. It also explores a number of fictional works which have been published in the last few years and features a helpful glossary. With full references, and written in a highly engaging style, this remains the essential short guide for readers of crime fiction everywhere!

Author : Mitzi M. Brunsdale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313040887

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Gumshoes by Mitzi M. Brunsdale Pdf

The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. This dictionary of fictional detectives helps readers learn about the series in which their favorite detectives are featured. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 150 fictional detectives, which provide information about the works in which the detective appears, the locales in which the detective operates, the detective's investigative methods, and other important information. Helpful bibliographical citations direct the reader to other interesting works. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography; various appendices; and an extensive index. The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. Many of the most popular mystery books appear in series, and these series feature carefully developed detectives.

Author : Peter Ridgway Watt,Joseph Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351895002

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The Alternative Sherlock Holmes by Peter Ridgway Watt,Joseph Green Pdf

Between 1887 and 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote sixty Sherlock Holmes stories, and his great Canon has become the most praised, most studied, and best-known chapter in the history of detective fiction. Over twenty thousand publications pertaining to the Sherlock Holmes phenomenon are known to have been published, most of them historical and critical studies. In addition, however, almost since the first stories appeared, such was their uniqueness and extraordinary attraction that other authors began writing stories based on or derived from them. A new genre had appeared: pastiches; parodies; burlesques; and stories that attempted to copy or rival the great detective himself. As the field widened, there was hardly a year in the twentieth century in which new short stories or novels did not appear. Many hundreds are now known to have been published, some of them written by authors well-known for their work in other literary fields. The non-canonical Sherlock Holmes literature not only constitutes a literary field of considerable historical interest, but includes many stories that are both enjoyable and fascinating in their own right. Although a large bibliography on these stories exists, and a few limited anthologies have been published, no attempt has previously been made to collect them all and discuss them comprehensively. The Alternative Sherlock Holmes does so: it provides a new and valuable approach to the Sherlock Holmes literature, as well as making available many works that have for years remained forgotten. Presented as an entertaining narrative, of interest to both the aficionado and the scholar, it provides full bibliographic data on virtually all the known stories in the field.

Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786457212

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Literary Afterlife by Bernard A. Drew Pdf

This is an encyclopedic work, arranged by broad categories and then by original authors, of literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors that created them. It includes book series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name, posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer, unauthorized pastiches, and "biographies" of literary characters. The authors and works are entered under the following categories: Action and Adventure, Classics (18th Century and Earlier), Classics (19th Century), Classics (20th Century), Crime and Mystery, Espionage, Fantasy and Horror, Humor, Juveniles (19th Century), Juveniles (20th Century), Poets, Pulps, Romances, Science Fiction and Westerns. Each original author entry includes a short biography, a list of original works, and information on the pastiches based on the author's characters.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : UVA:X006067957

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Antiquarian Book Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gina Macdonald
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026550876

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British Mystery and Thriller Writers Since 1960 by Gina Macdonald Pdf

Spans much of the modern history of the mystery genre and, along with it, many of the political and social changes from the classical detective story, the World War II spy story, and the Cold War thriller to postmodern detective and spy adventures and the politics of terrorism and confrontation of the twenty-first century.

Author : Joseph Green,Peter Ridgway Watt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123238516

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Alas, Poor Sherlock by Joseph Green,Peter Ridgway Watt Pdf

Discusses and details the mistakes, omissions, inconsistencies and imperfections pervading Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : UOM:39015061297563

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The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079622430

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : UOM:39015039671105

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AB Bookman's Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : American reference books annual
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117839675

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Index to American Reference Books Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079882356

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Bibliographic Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307949783

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Little Green by Walter Mosley Pdf

In Little Green, Walter Mosley’s acclaimed detective Easy Rawlins returns from the brink of death to investigate the dark side of that haven for Los Angeles hippies, the Sunset Strip. He’s soon back in top form, cruising the gloriously psychedelic mean streets of L.A. with his murderous sidekick, Mouse. They’ve been hired to look for a young black man, Evander “Little Green” Noon, who disappeared during an acid trip. Fueled by an elixir called Gator’s Blood, Easy experiences a physical, spiritual, and emotional resurrection, but peace and love soon give way to murder and mayhem.