Detective Fiction

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2941-4

Hardcover

280 pages

September 2005, Polity

Other Available Formats: Paperback

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A wide-ranging overview of Detective Fiction from its origins to the present day.
Combines general socio-historical background with ‘casebook’ chapters, providing students with close readings of key texts and introducing them to a variety of critical approaches.
Traces the history and development of the genre through all the well known authors and characters, including Edgar Allen Poe, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster.
Will fill a real gap for courses on detective and crime fiction, as well as appealing to popular fiction courses - there is no comprehensive book on detective fiction aimed at students currently available.
Written by a leading professor of English at Boston University.