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100 British Crime Writers

2020 British literature
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Release : 2020
Genre : British literature
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Book Synopsis 100 British Crime Writers by : Esme Miskimmin

Download or read book 100 British Crime Writers written by Esme Miskimmin. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: 'The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918; 'The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945; 'Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989; and 'To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.

100 American Crime Writers

2012-08-07 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2012-08-07
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis 100 American Crime Writers by : S. Powell

Download or read book 100 American Crime Writers written by S. Powell. This book was released on 2012-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books

2017-08-01 Fiction
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Release : 2017-08-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by : Martin Edwards

Download or read book The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books written by Martin Edwards. This book was released on 2017-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 ALA Book Club October Pick, Things that Go Bump: Paranormal Mysteries David Randall's perfect family life came derailed when his little daughter Lindsey died in a car crash. Thrown out by his second wife and wanting to leave a dead-end detective agency to start his own, he reluctantly accepts his psychic friend Camden's invitation to stay in Camden's boarding house in Parkland, North Carolina. Meanwhile, working the case of the murder of Albert Bennett, Randall's only clue is a notebook filled with odd musical notation. When another client, Melanie Gentry, hires him to prove her great-grandmother was murdered by her lover, composer John Burrows Ashford, over authorship of "Patchwork Melodies," Randall sets out to find a connection to Bennett's murder, as well as to the murder of a Smithsonian director, who was preparing a new PBS documentary on early American music. Randall's investigations lead him to another notebook, where he finds not only "Two Hearts Singing," Ashford's most famous song, but a valuable early copy of Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna," hidden in the cover. But things become more complicated when Ashford's spirit parks itself in Cam...and refuses to leave until Randall proves Ashford's innocence.

The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective

2018-09-23 Fiction
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Release : 2018-09-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by : Catherine Louisa Pirkis

Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis. This book was released on 2018-09-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""It's a big thing,"" said Loveday Brooke, addressing Ebenezer Dyer, chief of the well-known detective agency in Lynch Court, Fleet Street; ""Lady Cathrow has lost £30,000 worth of jewellery, if the newspaper accounts are to be trusted."" ""They are fairly accurate this time. The robbery differs in few respects from the usual run of country-house robberies. The time chosen, of course, was the dinner-hour, when the family and guests were at table and the servants not on duty were amusing themselves in their own quarters. The fact of its being Christmas Eve would also of necessity add to the business and consequent distraction of the household. The entry to the house, however, in this case was not effected in the usual manner by a ladder to the dressing-room window, but through the window of a room on the ground floor - a small room with one window and two doors, one of which opens into the hall, and the other into a passage that leads by the back stairs to the bedroom floor....""

Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction

2016-05-17 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-05-17
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Book Synopsis Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction by : Megan Hoffman

Download or read book Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction written by Megan Hoffman. This book was released on 2016-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an original and compelling analysis of the ways in which British women’s golden age crime narratives negotiate the conflicting social and cultural forces that influenced depictions of gender in popular culture in the 1920s until the late 1940s. The book explores a wide variety of texts produced both by writers who have been the focus of a relatively large amount of critical attention, such as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham, but also those who have received comparatively little, such as Christianna Brand, Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Josephine Tey and Patricia Wentworth. Through its original readings, this book explores the ambivalent nature of modes of femininity depicted in golden age crime fiction, and shows that seemingly conservative resolutions are often attempts to provide a ‘modern-yet-safe’ solution to the conflicts raised in the texts.

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