London, n.d. -- The League of Twelve . London, 1903. -- The Woman of Death . London, 1903. Third edition. -- Another edition. London, 1917. Later printing. Together 27 volumes, all FIRST EDITIONS, except where noted, 8 o, original cloth, condition varies. The Austrialian w...
Finally the Crofts influenced writer Raymond Chandler emphasized situation and description over puzzle plot in his tales. All of these writers were very influential on later crime fiction. Conclusion This school is read much less today than in the 1920's through the 1950's. The best-known ...
The pleasures of these novels are slightly different from the buzz of seeing a tired professional detective attempting to recharge. Taking professional detectives and recurring characters from crime fiction series on vacation offers a chance to change the rhythm,...
“Truthfulness may deceive”. This is indeed at the core of classic detective fiction; sometimes, as in Seeing is Believing, it may be stretched, but this is only a quantitative deviation, not a qualitative one, from the standard narrative devices used in all puzzle-plot detective fiction. A...
Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction by Elena Past (review) In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by Barbara Pezzotti (bio) Elena Past. Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisec...
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â— Mostly forgotten Australian-born writer of detective fiction, mostly set in Britain. This tale, his finest, is not. It one of the most original of the period. JAMES QUINCE Casual Slaughters (1935) â— A very good, virtually unknown village tale. ...
A further connection between the Steve Harrison saga and another Howard hero was formulated by science fiction writer Richard A. Lupoff. Before Erlik Khan, Howard created the evil genius Kathulos in "Skull-Face" (serialized in Weird Tales, starting October 1929). Howard had started to write a...
Review of John Cullen Gruesser. Race, Gender, and Empire in American Detective Fiction. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.Berkeley Electronic Press Selected WorksPhilip Edward Phillips
Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction job" to figure the problem of a woman's book infiltrating a man's genre, by showing its strategies for manipulating or subverting the familiar "... P Merivale 被引量: 0发表: 1996年 'An Unsuitable Job for a Woman'? : Woman as Writer and Protagonis...