Crime Fiction
Fom Poe to the Present
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Author
Publication
2012 - Northcote House Publishers, Limited
Language
English
Word Count
30,000 words, Guess
Page Count
120 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28484633M
- ISBN-139780746312179
- OCLC Control Number900437501
- OCLC Control Number855560263
- Library of Congress Control Number2014432427
Classifications
- LCCPN3448.D4
Description
LITERATURE: HISTORY & CRITICISM. This book gives a historical and critical introduction to the genre of crime fiction, from Edgar Allan Poe's first detective story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, in 1841 to the present day. It concentrates chiefly on three branches of Crime Fiction: the classic detective whodunit, the thriller in which the protagonist is opposed either to a powerful conspiracy or to society at large, and the hardboiled private-eye story, or detective thriller, which mixes aspects of the other two.
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