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Title The Cambridge companion to crime fiction / [edited by] Martin Priestman.

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  823.087209 C144 2003    ---  Available
Description xvii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Cambridge companions to literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-276) and index.
Contents Introduction: Crime fiction and detective fiction -- Eighteenth-century crime writing / Ian A. Bell -- Newgate novel and sensation fiction, 1830-1868 / Lynn Pykett -- Short story from Poe to Chesterton / Martin Kayman -- French crime fiction / Sita Schutt -- Golden age / Stephen Knight -- Private eye / Dennis Porter -- Spy fiction / Davis Seed -- Thriller / David Glover -- Postwar American police fiction / LeRoy Lad Panek -- Postwar British crime fiction / Martin Priestman -- Women detectives / Maureen T. Reddy -- Black crime fiction / Andrew Pepper -- Crime on film and TV / Nickianne Moody -- Detection and literary fiction / Laura Marcus.
Subject Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
Added Author Priestman, Martin, 1949-
Added Title Crime fiction
ISBN 0521008719 (pbk.)
0521803993 (hardback)
9780521803991 (hardback)
9780521008716 (pbk.)
Standard No. UKM bA3V0071
NLGGC 248668234
YDXCP 1984872
YDXCP 100337776
NZ1 7574270

 
    
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