The mysterious romance of murder : crime, detection, and the spirit of noir / David Lehman.

Why do we keep returning to Agatha Christie's ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled murder mysteries? What do spy thrillers teach us, and what accounts for the renewed popularity of morally ambiguous noirs? In this book, the poet and critic David Lehman explores a wide varie...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via University Press Scholarship Online)
Main Author:	Lehman, David, 1948- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2023]
Series:	Cornell scholarship online.
Subjects:	Detective and mystery stories > History and criticism. Detective and mystery films > History and criticism. Murder in literature. Murder in motion pictures. Literature. Literature: history & criticism.