Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection : From Sleuths to Superheroes.
Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes is an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators.||Icons of Mystery a...
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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara :
ABC-CLIO,
2010.
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| Summary: | Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes is an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators.||Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection spans the history of the detective story with series of critical entries on the field's most evocative names, from the originator of the form, Edgar Allan Poe, to its first popular running character, Sherlock Holmes; from the Golden Age of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Charlie ChanÑin. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (410 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780313345319 0313345317 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |