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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Cornell scholarship online.
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| Summary: | 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 variety of outstanding books and movies - some famous (The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity), some known mainly to aficionados - with style, wit, and passion. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2022. Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 281 pages) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| ISBN: | 9781501763649 9781501763632 |
| DOI: | 10.7591/cornell/9781501763625.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record. |