Mystery & Detective Fiction 17

This interdisciplinary and archival study explores the reception of ancient Rome in the artistic, literary, and philosophical works of David Jones (1895-1974)ーthe Anglo-Welsh, Roman Catholic, First……続きを見る

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influence……続きを見る

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

An Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Three of his……続きを見る

An Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Three of his……続きを見る

Società e scienze sociali - saggio (14 pagine) - Stefano Di Marino ci ha ricordato con il suo gesto che il Sogno è bello che morto da un’eternità, che non si può aspirare a tanto. Specie se si è da ……続きを見る

A simple job turns deadly when Mary Wandwalker, novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young American, Rhiannon, to the Oxford University Summer School on the ancient Celts. Worried by a rhetoric……続きを見る

As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oft outrageous “Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction” persona, James Ellroy has used interviews as a means of shaping narrative……続きを見る

The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new gener……続きを見る

The Land of Mist, written by Arthur Conan Doyle, is the sequel to Sherlock Holmes’ first novel, A Study in Scarlet. The story takes place in Victorian England, and follows the titular character, She……続きを見る

“I think my wife might be right. I am going slightly mad.”Hounded is an escape from the anxiety of reaching a half-century, written during the pandemic of 2020 and into the spring of 2021, during wh……続きを見る

Kelvin I. Jones has been writing about Sherlock Holmes for over 50 years, and studied the real-life crime, criminals and criminalistics of the late Victorians. Kelvin’s forensic approach has already……続きを見る

The clue-puzzle, legal thriller, and classic whodunit are just a few of the subgenres within the widely popular crime fiction genre. However, despite its popularity among readers, the crime short st……続きを見る

A Jane Austen heroine murdered. A literary villain turned hero. And an investigator between it all. The year is 1814 when Fanny Price is found murdered in Mansfield Park. Once a rich heiress who was……続きを見る

This book presents how Nation and Narrative are bound together through the figure of the "N/native" as it appears in the non-fictional writings of Cornelia Sorabji, Grazia Deledda, Zitkála-%Sá, Virg……続きを見る

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detect……続きを見る

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

For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery an……続きを見る

This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constit……続きを見る

Giallo - saggio (15 pagine) - Neppure Joyce Lussu (1912-’98), scrittrice impegnata e gloria partigiana, ha saputo resistere all’eroe di Conan Doyle Che cosa spinge il detective di Baker Street nelle……続きを見る

In "Edgar Wallace 'Äî Each Way," Robert Curtis delves into the intricate narrative web crafted by the prolific writer Edgar Wallace, revealing the author's dual commitment to thrilling storytelling ……続きを見る

This edition includes the following editor's introduction:Carolyn Wells and other relevant w**omen writers in the origins of the mystery and detective genre Originally published in 1813, “The Tech……続きを見る

Die Kommissarin Karen Leymann kann sich keinen Reim darauf machen: Der Tote, den man im historischen Eiskeller von Altenberge gefunden hat, ist schon seit mindestens 140 Jahren tot. Dennoch ist sein……続きを見る

Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The “fantastical” in fantastical blackness is con……続きを見る

Giallo - saggio (17 pagine) - Una insolita connessione tra scienza e letteratura Un'analisi strategica dello scontro Sherlock Holmes vs. Moriarty, descritto nel famoso racconto Il problema finale, è……続きを見る

The detective story--the classic whodunit with its time-displacement structure of crime--according to most literary historians, is of relatively recent origin. Early in its development, the whodunit……続きを見る

Letteratura - saggio (121 pagine) - Tagliente e cruda come i suoi romanzi, l'autobiografia della regina italiana dell'orrore e del nero Dal nero italiano alla fondazione del Gruppo 13, dai fumetti s……続きを見る

This volume contains fifteen works by English novelist Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward). Among the works are complete series of Dr. Fu Manchu, featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. an……続きを見る

Las experiencias vividas de una joven de 16 años, que empieza a experimentar actividades paranormales tanto en las religiones esotericas y celestiales. Basado en hechos reales. 続きを見る

First published in 1951, My Dear Holmes is a biography of Sherlock Holmes, which originated from the author’s re-reading of the Sherlock Holmes stories to his daughter, supplies answers to mysteries……続きを見る