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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 19th century to the most contemporary 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 complete study of a popular and still relatively underexamined genre.
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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 19th century to the most contemporary 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 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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