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The rise and fall of the detective novel.
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IN this day and age of the crime novel, the who-dunnit, the detective hero; when half the novels, plays and T,V programmes (or so it seems) consist of the genre; when Agatha Christie's lucubrations run for years in the West End, and spatter the TV programmes; and when a whole clutch of fiction purveyors have made their names and fortunes by turning out nothing else, it is interesting and instructive to look back and trace the origins of such a state of affairs.
The first essays in the art of deduction and ratiocination per se must go to the French. As early as the 18th…
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The rise and fall of the detective novel.
...of the crime novel, the who-dunnit, the detective hero; when half...name his one detective, could remember...lengthy and unequal novel of some 800...glancing at the novel itself it is...so popular in detective fiction during... |
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McCann, Sean Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall...
...Both the Klan and the private detective used vigilante justice to restore...Maltese Falcon, redesigned the detective novel while retaining its popular roots...this light, Chandler reworked the detective story, searching for images of... |
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Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal...
...Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism, by Sean...version of James M. Cain's 1936 novel Double Indemnity, for instance...and novelists. McCann examines detective and crime novels and finds "a symbolic... |
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Before the Rise, After the Fall
...police forces in Europe. He introduces detective Inspector Harry Wulff, an honest man...in bold contrast to the high- minded detective and his cultured lover. Dold brings...realities in Berlin in 1930-33, and his novel is never less than readable. At the... |
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Casey at the bat: with two big roles this fall, the younger Affleck brother may...
...Affleck. In the Ron Hansen novel upon which the film is...gruff Dennis Lehane crime novel, Gone Baby Gone, set...ever happened." The novel's detective is a classic dime-store...he watched his brother rise and fall. And then he saw pal... |
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Artful homage offers Tey and sympathy
...character along with Detective Inspector Archie...Lie" is her 12th novel featuring Scotland...after Hitler's rise to power, has...until puzzle pieces fall together. Highly...winning first novel, "In the Woods." Detective Cassie Maddox goes... |
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Fatalism and legal chaos in Sicily.
...condemnation of the mystery novel as a genre. I must...that the average detective novel puts me in mind of...of mystery novels fall into one of two categories...but still fail to rise above the limitations...They feature a detective who always gets her... |
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Where there's a will
...parodies - the familiar detective-novel format. Only a stranger...Guest is not a fine novel. It is an elaborate...always feel wary of a novel in which the characters...author's ideas never rise above this level...Nowhere is this short-fall more evident than... |
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The other side of the story
...to reading a detective novel is a Kinky Friedman...aspect to the novel that ought to...ever since the rise of Islamism in...society in free fall. "The calmness...powerful about the novel is its unique...the model of a detective story, Rees... |
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Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone.
...Kingston, Ontario Things Fall Apart was Achebe's novel written about the devastating...His investigation is novel and leads to a deeper...on the flavor of a detective novel because of its detailed...Leone state from the rise of personalized rule... |
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