Ian F. A. Bell, Graham Daldry

Watching the Detectives

Essays on Crime Fiction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this collection of essays, a number of critics offer commentary on the crime fiction genre, exploring the kinds of pleasure it offers. Looking under the attractive surface of these books, the contributors discover a number of complex issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-10593-9
• 1st ed. 1990
• Seitenzahl: 193
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781349105939
• ISBN-10: 1349105937
• Artikelnr.: 44459276

Inhaltsangabe

Irony and justice in Patricia Highsmith, Ian A.Bell; "This Shitty Urban Machine Humanized..." - the urban crime novel and the novels of William McIlvanney, Simon Dentith; the voices of George V Higgins, Graham Daldry; investigating women - the female sleuth after feminism, Lyn Pykett; the phantom at the limits of criminology, Richard W.Ireland; "real" detectives and "fictional" criminals, John Simons; unravelling a web - writer versus reader in Edgar Allan Poe's tales of detection, F.C.Lewis; Chandler's cannibalism, Maldwyn Mills; "home" is where the hearth is - the Englishness of Agatha Christie's Marple novels, Anna-Marie Taylor; "Loving and Lying" - multiple identity in John Le Carre's "A Perfect Spy", Tony Barley; radical thrillers, Stephen Knight.