Mystery & Detective Fiction 15

The new Perry Mason HBO mini-series starring Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow premiers in early 2020 The memorable theme music, the successful plot formula, and the well-rounded, believable characters ……続きを見る

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing. Since the 1990 publication of his first n……続きを見る

Angelically beautiful Jean Briggerland is a sociopathic criminal, so lovely that none can see her guilt -- even in connection with the most blatant crimes! Can Jack Glover, best friend and lawyer to……続きを見る

“Slop shops," "scissorizing," "agony aunts," and "foolscap" These and other Victorian references appear throughout the original Sherlock Holmes tales. Everyday words and phrases to the Victorian may……続きを見る

Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural have no place in the logical, rational, world of the det……続きを見る

Psychoanalytic perspectives on Kristeva's fiction. With published work spanning more than forty years, Julia Kristeva's influence in psychoanalysis and literary theory is difficult to overstate. In ……続きを見る

An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000. Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that ……続きを見る

Ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009. Finalist for the 2012 Edgar Award in the Best Critical/Biographical Category presented by the Mystery……続きを見る

With the 1965 publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote declared he broke new literary ground. But Capote's "nonfiction novel" belongs to a long Naturalist tradition originating in the work of 19t……続きを見る

Surgida de la crisis económica y los movimientos sociales del siglo XXI, la novela de crímenes española socava la presunta contundencia del capitalismo como discurso totalizante. Con base en la teor……続きを見る

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories are full of everyday Victorian activities and events that send the twenty-first-century reader to consult their reference books. Few, for example, are intimately acq……続きを見る

Irish crime fiction, long present on international bestseller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade. With a wide range of scholars addressing some of the most essential Ir……続きを見る

'It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.' The Road to Wigan Pier is George Orwell's 1937 study of poverty an……続きを見る

Slender, elegant, refined, seductive, Arsène Lupine, gentleman-burglar by trade, is the model of the "Belle Epoque" dandy. His intelligence, his culture, his talents as an illusionist between Fregol……続きを見る

Mi son di nuovo perso e la strada è lunga. Lunga quasi quanto gli intrecci stradali dei decumani dedalici d’una Bologna a quel tempo e purtroppo, a tutt’oggi, soventemente sconsacrata... Bologna, mi……続きを見る

'These highbrows must remember that there is a demand for little things as well as for big things' George Bernard Shaw was one of the leading playwrights and public intellectuals of the nineteenth a……続きを見る

Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre. Pygmalion (1912) was a world-wide smash hit from the time ……続きを見る

The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in March 1923 and, in the same year, in the UK by The Bodley Head in May. 続きを見る

The collection, brings together the works that inspired the original NETFLIX series, directed by Louis Leterrier as well as the Hero, Assane Diop, performed by OMAR SY. Slender, elegant, refined, se……続きを見る

With their intimate settings, subdued action and likeable characters, cozy mysteries are rarely seen as anything more than light entertainment. The cozy, a subgenre of crime fiction, has been histor……続きを見る

This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier. The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume. This book contains the following works, cla……続きを見る

How much do you really know about the FBI? Do you know who the FBI is? Do you know what the FBI does? This manual debunks FBI myths and misconceptions for those who read, watch, and write crime dram……続きを見る

When the largest chemical manufacturing company in the U.S. moves from the Houston/ Galveston area to Mexico, the people left behind are jobless and angry. Appleton Smith, award-winning, investigati……続きを見る

A masterful combination of literary study and author biography, How Sherlock Pulled the Trick guides us through the parallel careers of two inseparable men: Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arth……続きを見る

This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier. The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume. This book contains the following works, cla……続きを見る

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Con……続きを見る

Con una traducción pedagógicamente mediada, totalmente nueva y exclusiva de la editorial Cazam Ah, este compendio de los diez mejores cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe toca los tres ejes centrales de su tí……続きを見る

Looking for a fun but informative read? 'Shakey's Madness' is a well-researched and well-rounded argument around the *real* author of 'The First Folio'. Using academic resources including The Folger……続きを見る

Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. The first book to explore the productive intersections between detection and performance ac……続きを見る

This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier. The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume. This book contains the following works, cla……続きを見る