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Author : Tony Hillerman,Rosemary Herbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018327028
These thirty three stories demonstrate the evolution of crime fiction in the United States and our unique national contributions to this international genre.
Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192803719
The field of detective fiction is vast, and The Oxford Book of Detective Stories brings together the best short fiction from around the world to show how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on the genre. As well as English and American stories from acknowledged masters such as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, and Agatha Christie, the anthology includes stories by Simenon, Conan Doyle, Sarah Paretsky, and Ian Rankin, and roams across Europe and further afield to embrace Japan, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth, locked-room mysteries are all here, and in her introduction Patricia Craig examines the figure of the detective in international literature.
Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : 0192829688
Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.
Author : Tony & Herbert Rosemary Hillerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:469308081
Author : Edward D. Hoch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Crime
ISBN : UOM:39015046902311
A virtual cornucopia of whodunits from the true masters of the craft, including Edgar Alan Poe, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Craig Rice, Ellery Queen, and Raymond Chandler, this anthology contains some genuine rarities.
Author : Donald E. Westlake
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195092627
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author : Rosemary Herbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195072391
"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the gen
Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009740825
Forty of the best women writers this century including: Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Willa Cather.
Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192840886
Travel, associated as it is with strangeness, marvels, and excitement, has always proved an irresistible subject for writers. 'The Oxford Book of Travel Stories' brings together some of the best short fiction on this most exhilarating of subjects from writers as diverse as Anthony Trollope,Edith Wharton, Ring Larner, William Trevor, Sylvia Townsend Warner, John Cheever, Beryl Bainbridge, and V. S. Pritchett.Readers of this anthology will be able to revel in the atmosphere of nineteenth-century Palestine, the Riviera of the 1920s, or a botanical tour of Greece. There are stories set in far distant locations - China, Australia - and others closer to home, such as Benedict Kiely's entrancing 'A Journey tothe Seven Streams'. Most are high-spirited, in keeping with the theme, some are wonderfully funny and one or two productively unsettling, such as Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'. Some deal with the journey itself, and encounters on train or boat; others see travel as a literal riteof passage, an escape or a sudden growing-up. All of them illustrate, in various ways, how travel has to do with stimulus, enrichment, and a sense of achievement - 'Not fare well', as T. S. Eliot has it, 'but fare forward, voyagers'.
Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307743138
P. D. James, the undisputed queen of mystery, gives us an intriguing, inspiring and idiosyncratic look at the genre she has spent her life perfecting. Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at such contemporary masters as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell, P. D. James goes right to the heart of the genre. Along the way she traces the lives and writing styles of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and many more. Here is P.D. James discussing detective fiction as social history, explaining its stylistic components, revealing her own writing process, and commenting on the recent resurgence of detective fiction in modern culture. It is a must have for the mystery connoisseur and casual fan alike.
Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : UCSC:32106016344399
Oxford offers a thorough, broad, and representative collection of the best detective short stories, from writers such as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, and Agatha Christie. Drawing on works from the middle 1800s to the present, the editor shows how different nationalities have put their own stamp on this literary genre.
Author : Laura Marcus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011855348
Whether a housekeeper, secretary, lodger, or pawn-broker in a seedy area of Victorian London, the woman detective's powers of observation and deduction are most effective in uncovering and resolving crimes. These 12 engaging mysteries gives us a glimpse of some of the most memorable characters ever created--such as Miss Marple, Carlotta Carlyle, Sharon McCone and other beloved heroines of the detective novel--by both men and women writers.
Author : Faith Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Canals
ISBN : 1848450028
DI Hillary Greene is not a happy woman. Not only has her corrupt husband died, leaving her in the mire with an internal investigation team, but she's living on a relative's canal boat in the tiny village of Thrupp. Things perk up, however, when her boss assigns her the case of a body found in a canal lock.
Author : Tony Hillerman,Rosemary Herbert,Sue Grafton,Jeffery Deaver
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195182149
"Three-quarters of a century ago, Dorothy L. Sayers compiled the classic anthology The Omnibus of Crime, a definitive collection of short fiction that brought together crime and mystery works from the Apocryphal Scriptures to whodunits from the 1920s. Now, reflecting the explosive developments in the genre, Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of that book's publication with A New Omnibus of Crime. Like Sayers's volume, this new book is envisioned as a vehicle carrying stories the editors think represent the best in crime and mystery writing in our time. Selections also reflect the tastes of Contributing Editors Sue Grafton and Jeffery Deaver, both of whom have stories in this volume."--BOOK JACKET.