Mystery Detective Fiction category: 469 books
Cracking the Hard-Boiled Detective
A Critical History from the 1920s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
The hard-boiled private detective is among the most recognizable characters in popular fiction since the 1920s—a tough product of a violent world, in which police forces are inadequate and people with money can choose private help when facing threatening circumstances. Though a relatively recent...
The Detective and the Artist
Painters, Poets and Writers in Crime Fiction, 1840s-1970s
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction—as detectives, as villains and victims, and as bystanders. With a few significant exceptions, literary detectives have always identified themselves as essentially the deconstructors of the artful crimes of others....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Faulkner and Mystery presents a wide spectrum of compelling arguments about the role and function of mystery in William Faulkner's fiction. Twelve new essays approach the question of what can be known and what remains a secret in the narratives of the Nobel laureate. Scholars debate whether or not...
Brown Gumshoes
Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Popular fiction, with its capacity for diversion, can mask important cultural observations within a framework that is often overlooked in the academic world. Works thought to be merely "escapist" can often be more seriously mined for revelations regarding the worlds they portray, especially those of...
by Laird R. Blackwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
H.C. Bailey’s detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several popular archetypes—the...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories,...
The Digital Age Detective
Mysteries in a Changing Landscape of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Imagining the figure of the fictional detective as an archetype in the study of modern culture, the author argues that contemporary detective fiction can help us better comprehend fundamental shifts of the Digital Age—in communication, family, entertainment, society, even the way we think as individuals....
Gender Bending Detective Fiction
A Critical Analysis of Selected Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changes, storylines that involve cross-dressing and transgender characters have frequently appeared in detective fiction—characters who subvert the conventions of the genre and challenge reader...
The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik
The Case of the Chinese Detective and the American Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
From 1949 to 1968 author Robert van Gulick wrote 15 novels, two novellas and eight short stories featuring Judge Dee, a Chinese magistrate and detective from the Tang dynasty. In addition to providing the setting for riveting mysteries, Dee’s world highlighted aspects of traditional Chinese culture...
Sara Paretsky
A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Sara Paretsky’s groundbreaking mystery series about Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski debuted in 1982 and is still going strong. She is a co-founder of Sisters in Crime (worldwide organization supporting women writers), a sought-after public speaker and the 2015 president of the Mystery...
by LeRoy Lad Panek, Mary M. Bendel-Simso
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Until recently, only a privileged few could read the rare, early writings that formed the basis of detective fiction in America and made it one of the most popular literary genres of the 19th century. Drawing on the unprecedented access provided by digital collections of period newspapers and magazines,...
Class and Culture in Crime Fiction
Essays on Works in English Since the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime—each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race and politics. The ten new essays herein...
by Edward L. Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
Includes an active table of contents so you can easily navigate to each book.
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Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road (1877)
Fritz to the Front (1881)
Buck Hawk, Detective (1888)
Deadwood Dick's Doom (1900)
by Edgar Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles. In the 1920s, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him.
He was known during his lifetime for the J. G. Reeder...