- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (4 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333791797
- ISBN-13: 978-0333791790
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 609,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Stephen Knight's book is an excellent narrative introduction to crime and detective fiction in the last two hundred years, providing a wealth of detail which will have a very strong appeal to students and which will fill a major gap in the market.' - Clive Bloom, Middlesex University
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Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre evolved, explores major authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts: the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The best criticism is cited and the book provides full references and a helpful chronology, making this a highly readable complete study of a popular and still relatively underexamined genre.
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This summer's holiday reading included detectives of every diverse kinds: a neurotic Edinburgh detective inspector, a fiesty native Alaskan tour-guide-cum-detective, a British black investigative journalist, a postmodern and lesbian translator-investigator in modern Barcelona. Read the first page
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This summer's holiday reading included detectives of every diverse kinds: a neurotic Edinburgh detective inspector, a fiesty native Alaskan tour-guide-cum-detective, a British black investigative journalist, a postmodern and lesbian translator-investigator in modern Barcelona. Read the first page
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Where it's good it's good, but sadly as in a previous work (Continent of Mystery - In which he states that Celia Fremlin wrote Christianna Brand's Green for Danger) it has mistakes in it that make you feel you have to double check everything you read in it.In this book confusing Nigel Strangeway's wife with his mistress is a pretty unforgiveable mistake given how easy it is to check the facts.
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