Product Description
The first full-length study of its type highlighting over 350 British literary detectives, many famous through their film and TV adaptations. Using essays to highlight different types of detectives and focusing on some of the more famous such as Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Morse, popular crime fiction writer and former President of the CWA, Russell James celebrates the role of the detective in British fiction. Illustrations will include original film posters and first edition covers from classic detective fiction.