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This book views the Dutch sinologist, Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee mysteries as a hybrid East–West form of detective fiction and uses the concept of transculturation to discuss their hybrid nature w……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

Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes ch……続きを見る

Fans of Sherlock Holmes will delight to investigate Victorian England, a world where crimes large and small abound and where dark corners and well-lit drawing rooms alike hide villainy. Through the ……続きを見る

Hidden Threads in Sherlock Holmes is a fresh approach to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Arthur Conan Doyle hid scores of topics in the Sherlock Holmes adventures on subjects as diverse as arsenic an……続きを見る

With the story of a madeleine dipped in tea, Marcel Proust makes famous moments that transport one to an earlier time thought lost forever. His In Search of Lost Time announces a quest narrative wit……続きを見る

Matters of space, spatiality, geography, topography and place have mostly remained neglected in modern scholarship and teaching because in most modern and postmodern literary criticism history and t……続きを見る

What is the difference between the ‘I’ of a poem--the lyric subject-- and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire uses this question to re-examine the wor……続きを見る

En Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creó uno de los personajes literarios más conocidos y más realizados en el mundo. Desde la muerte de Doyle, ha habido un montón de escritores que imitan su……続きを見る

As historias de mistério -clássicas e modernas, sangrentas ou de golpistas - estão na moda. Seus protagonistas são amplamente conhecidos, se tornaram grandes estrelas e conquistaram tantos fãs quant……続きを見る

En este ensayo, el genial Raymond Chandler critica a los escritores que escriben novelas policiales como si hicieran chorizos, aquellos que han convertido al género policial en el lado B de la liter……続きを見る

Las historias de misterio -clásicas y modernas, sangrientas o de estafadores- están de moda. Sus protagonistas son conocidos masivamente, se han convertido en estrellas y generan tantos fanáticos co……続きを見る

Detective fiction, both soft-boiled and hard-boiled, is in vogue. Its protagonists are widely known, they have become icons who have as many fans as the most popular actors and singers. This amazing……続きを見る

For nearly a century, the work of Belgian crime writer and psychological novelist Georges Simenon, creator of Chief Inspector Maigret, has captivated readers worldwide. This investigation situates S……続きを見る

How many times have you heard that creative writing programmes are factories that produce the same kind of writers, isolated from real life? Only by escaping academia can writers be completely free.……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist writers developed new techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires that revolutionized the novel form--a revol……続きを見る

Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson covers a fascinating yet little known moment in history. At the turn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson and his s……続きを見る

Learn about the world's greatest detective in The Sherlock Holmes Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Le……続きを見る

Since his first novel in 1992, Michael Connelly has become one of America's most popular and critically acclaimed crime writers. He is best known as the author of a long-running series featuring LAP……続きを見る

Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Katie Berry Frye, Michael Kreyling, Andrew B. Leiter, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Michael Pickard, Harriet Pollack, and Victoria Richa……続きを見る

Be as smart as Sherlock Holmes! Arthur Conan Doyle's original tales include many references to everyday Victorian life that are no longer part of current readers' world. What Holmes would have eaten……続きを見る

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Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the social upheaval caused by war. In-depth analysis of interwar publications by a ……続きを見る

The Casebook collection cannot be called the strongest in the series, but it certainly has its merits. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle understood that these twelve stories about the genius detective would be……続きを見る

“This book is dangerous. A veritable cornucopia of crime fiction and gardening lore, it faces the reader with multiple temptationsーbooks to seek out, plants to obtain, garden tours to book.” ーVick……続きを見る

WINNER OF 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD (BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL BOOK) THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE H.R.F KEATING AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/CRITICAL BOOK ANTHONY AWAR……続きを見る

The Bond Code is the remarkable story of how Fleming's association with the occult world led him to create a masterful series of clever clues, cyphers, and codes within his books. Philip Gardiner fi……続きを見る

Giallo - saggio (12 pagine) - Quando si conclude davvero lo scontro tra Moriarty e Sherlock Holmes? Mentre veniva scritto, il racconto Il problema finale rappresentava per Arthur Conan Doyle il culm……続きを見る

The publication Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination is part of the Topographies of (Post)Modernity: Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature in English Series. The text reflects gro……続きを見る

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate within Irish literary culture from 1880 to 1960. Combi……続きを見る