Titlebook: Watching the Detectives; Essays on Crime Fict Ian A. Bell (Lecturer in English),Graham Daldry (C Book 1990 Palgrave Macmillan, a division o

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,Unravelling a Web: Writer versus Reader in Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Detection,On 9 August 1846, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a grateful letter to his friend Philip Pendleton Cooke, in which he made a significant assessment of his own ‘ratiocinative’, or detective, tales:

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, is Where the Hearth Is: The Englishness of Agatha Christie’s Marple Novels,Agatha Christie’s popularity seems obvious to everybody except literary critics. In this chapter I shall explore this persistent popularity, and try to articulate it by drawing on German literary terms; in particular the notion of ..

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Book 1990In this collection of essays, a number of critics offer commentary on the crime fiction genre, exploring the kinds of pleasure it offers. Looking under the attractive surface of these books, the contributors discover a number of complex issues.

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,‘This Shitty Urban Machine Humanised’: The Urban Crime Novel and the Novels of William McIlvanney,ay of a discussion of ‘wise guy’ or ‘hard-boiled’ style, and its possible take-up in British writing. But I shall begin by juxtaposing two ways of understanding genre, as a means of demonstrating what is at stake in the following discussion; namely what meanings are generated by, and can be carried by, urban crime writing.

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978-1-349-10593-9Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990

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