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Title The Cambridge companion to crime fiction / [edited by] Martin Priestman.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  823.0872 C178C    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 287 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Cambridge companions to literature
Cambridge companions to literature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.
Contents Introduction: Crime fiction and detective fiction -- Eighteenth-century crime writing / Ian A. Bell -- The Newgate novel and sensation fiction, 1830-1868 / Lynn Pykett -- The short story from Poe to Chesterton / Martin Kayman -- French crime fiction / Sita Schütt -- The golden age / Stephen Knight -- The private eye / Dennis Porter -- Spy fiction / Davis Seed -- The thriller / David Glover -- Postwar American police fiction / LeRoy Lad Panek -- Postwar British crime fiction / Martin Priestman -- Women detectives / Maureen T. Reddy -- Black crime fiction / Andrew Pepper -- Crime on film and TV / Nickianne Moody -- Detection and literary fiction / Laura Marcus.
Summary This companion covers British and American crime fiction from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction such as the thriller and spy fiction.
Subject Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
Added Author Priestman, Martin, 1949-
Added Title Crime fiction
ISBN 0521803993 hardback
9780521803991 hardback
0521008719 paperback
9780521008716 paperback
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