Stephen Knight

Secrets of Crime Fiction Classics

Detecting the Delights of 21 Enduring Stories

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Produktbeschreibung

Starting with William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective fiction--Poe's Dupin stories, Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Sayers' Strong Poison, Chandler's The Big Sleep, and Simenon's The Yellow Dog. Lesser-known but important early works are also discussed, including Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, Emile Gaboriau's M. Lecoq, Anna Katharine Green's The Leavenworth Case and Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. More recent titles show increasing variety in the mystery genre, with Patricia Highsmith's criminal-focused The Talented Mr. Ripley and Chester Himes' African-American detectives in Cotton Comes to Harlem. Diversity develops further in Sara Paretsky's tough woman detective V.I. Warshawski in Indemnity Only, Umberto Eco's medievalist and postmodern The Name of the Rose and the forensic feminism of Patricia Cornwell's Postmortem. Notably, the best modern crime fiction has been primarily international--Manuel Vasquez Montalban's Catalan Summer Seas, Ian Rankin's Edinburgh-set The Naming of the Dead, Sweden's Stieg Larsson's The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo and Vikram Chanda's Mumbai-based Sacred Games. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9780786493982
• ISBN-10: 0786493984
• Artikelnr.: 41050087

Autorenporträt

Stephen Knight is a well-known authority on crime fiction and literature through the ages. He has worked at universities in Australia, England and Wales and is a research professor in literature at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface Introduction Part I: Beginnings 1.
Caleb Williams, William Godwin 2.
Edgar Huntly, Charles Brockden Brown 3.
The Dupin Stories, Edgar Allan Poe 4.
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins 5.
Monsieur Lecoq,
mile Gaboriau 6.
The Leavenworth Case, Anna Katharine Green 7.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Fergus Hume Part II: Mainstream 8.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle 9.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie 10.
Strong Poison, Dorothy Sayers 11.
The Yellow Dog, Georges Simenon 12.
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler 13.
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith Part III: Diversity 14.
Cotton Comes to Harlem, Chester Himes 15.
Indemnity Only, Sara Paretsky 16.
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco 17.
Southern Seas, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán 18.
The Naming of the Dead, Ian Rankin 19.
Postmortem, Patricia Cornwell 20.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson 21.
Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra Index